Based on the largest data set available on state campaign finance, this work analyzes contribution and spending patterns at the state level in the USA. A range of issues are explained, including the rise in campaign costs and how spending patterns relate to the outcome of the elections.
This book presents persuasive arguments in support of public service and those who work within it. Clearly, some services should come under government control: public safety, highways, armed and emergency service, water, sewage, parks, schools. Others, however, are operating in answer to problems that society fails to solve. The public sector ......
This collection presents a comparative study on the emerging regional nature of local and urban politics in the United States. Recent studies have tended to focus on the politics and power of inner cities or on suburban areas which have gained incredible strength in the past decade. Regional Politics, however, explores how politics works in the extended metropolis which both includes and surrounds the urban core and whose economy, society and politics are integrally joined. Through detailed case studies of 10 cities in the US, the book: looks at the development of regional patterns; analyzes the impact regionalism has on urban politics; and outlines an overall approach.
This collection presents a comparative study on the emerging regional nature of local and urban politics in the United States. Recent studies have tended to focus on the politics and power of inner cities or on suburban areas which have gained incredible strength in the past decade. Regional Politics, however, explores how politics works in the extended metropolis which both includes and surrounds the urban core and whose economy, society and politics are integrally joined. Through detailed case studies of 10 cities in the US, the book: looks at the development of regional patterns; analyzes the impact regionalism has on urban politics; and outlines an overall approach.
Traces Christie Whitman's roots back to the days at her parents' rural estate in northwestern New Jersey. This book provides a look at Whitman's family heritage: the impact of her politically active grandparents, her role as the daughter of Republican party movers and shakers, and her early years at the Republican National Committee.
During the 1980s, United States cities came of age as forces to be reckoned with in US foreign policy. This scholarly, yet readable, analysis carefully explores the roots and influence of municipal activism, surveying particular organizing issues and developing an `active city' profile by examining particular cases.
How have local economic conditions been affected by the emergence of a global economy? What changes, if any, have local political authorities made to counterbalance the new emphasis on world interests? Comprehensive and timely, this book answers these and other vital questions by exploring local political restructuring in the face of massive global economic change.
In this age of global transition, contemporary grassroots mobilization is the dominant form of resistance against the state available to the individual and the community. Using empirically-based case studies as well as theoretical essays, this volume offers suggestions for strategy, ideology and leadership that will enhance the potential of grassroots mobilization.
