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Title American state and local politics : directions for the 21st century / edited by Ronald E. Weber and Paul Brace.

Imprint New York : Chatham House Publishers, Seven Bridges Press, c1999.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  320.8 Am35    ---  Available
Description xiv, 361 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-348) and index.
Contents States and localities transformed / Ronald E. Weber and Paul Brace -- Devolution and challenge for state and local governance / Robert M. Stein -- Governors : their heritage and future / Nelson C. Dometrius -- Institutionalized legislature and the rise of the antipolitics era / Paul Brace and Daniel S. Ward -- Statehouse bureaucracy : institutional consistency in a changing environment / Charles Barrilleaux -- State judicial politics : rules, structures, and the political game / Melinda Gann Hall -- Embattled mayors and local executives / James H. Svara -- Resurgent city councils / Susan MacManus -- State and local parties in a candidate-centered age / John F. Bibby -- Opening up of state and local election processes / Charles S. Bullock III -- Interest representation in the states / Virginia Gray and David Lowery -- Policy change in the American states / Evan J. Ringquist and James C. Garand -- Policy change in American cities and counties / Elaine B. Sharpe.
Subject State governments.
Local government.
Added Author Weber, Ronald E., 1938-
Brace, Paul, 1954-
ISBN 1566430712

 
    
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