Subject(s): Intergovernmental Fiscal Relation -- State Constitution -- Federalism -- Intergovernmental relations -- Block grants-A federalist tools -- American federalism -- Federal republic of Germany -- States as polities in the federal system -- State dominance or local autonomy -- Resurgence of multi state regionalism -- Interstate compacts -- State constitutions -- Judicial federalism -- Organizational and fiscal principles in the constitutions of Alaska and Hawaii -- Politics of state government -- Access to the ballot in primary elections: the need for fundamental reform -- Use of public facilities and employees - campaign activities -- Non partisan elections -- Initiative, referendum and recall: government by plebiscite -- How to inhibit gerrymandering: the purpose of redistricting criteria -- Legislative leadership -- Nebraska non partisan legislature -- Legislative staff -- Gubernatorial styles -- Veto in the Empire state -- party representation on state supreme courts: Unequal representation -- Small- claims court -- Politics of local government -- Municipal debt and tax limits -- State mandate problem -- New England town meeting -- Small town government : administrative styles -- Charter reforms in the 1990s -- Alternative local electoral systems