Subject(s): 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