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Saffell David C

State and local government: Politics and public policies - New York McGraw Hill 2001 - 339p.

ISBN: 0-07-232251-9

Subjects--Topical Terms:
intergovernmental Relations
Political parties and interested group
Financing state and ocal Government
State governments in United States
Local government in United States
Constitutional and legal limits on state action
Intergovernmental relations
American federal system
Horizontal federalism
State - local relations
Political parties and interested groups
Political parties and nomination of candidates
Public policies
Community power studies
Political participation and election
Voting, election campaigns, campaign financing , referendum
State and legal legislature
Legislative politics, local legislature
Governess, bureaucrats and Mayors
Historical development of governor's office
Administration of state and local governments
Sate wide election executives
Court, police and corrections
Trial court procedures
State court organization
Capital punishment , crimes
Judicial selection
Criminal justice system
Financing state and local government
Debt polices
State policy making: conflict and accommodation
Education, social welfare, economic development , environment protection,
Suburbs, metropolitan areas, and rural communities
Urban sprawl
Politics of metropolitan consolidation
Planning
Rural and small towns in America

Dewey Class. No.: 320.8 / SAF/S