Politics in States and Communities

by Thomas R. Dye

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9th

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9780132587082

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0132587084

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Pub. Date:

10/1/1996

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Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference

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A lively written, thought-provoking book which uses a clear, accessible approach to political conflict in American states and communities. It explores the what and the why behind current issues including illegal immigration, term limits, the fight against tobacco, campaign finance, sexual harassment, welfare reform, crime in the states, police and law enforcement, state correctional policies, the death penalty, abortion, affirmative action and more. This book compares the public policy and government management strategies of state and local governments, while focusing on the sources and nature of conflict. Coverage demonstrates how communities and states in America play an important role in the political life of the nation. For anyone wanting to learn more about State, Local, State and Local Government and Urban Politics.

PREFACE

xiii

1 POLITICS IN STATES AND COMMUNITIES

(26)

A Political Approach to States and Communities

(1)

A Comparative Approach to States and Communities

(5)

State Political "Cultures" and Ethnic Influences

(4)

Liberalism and Conservatism in the States

(3)

Race and Ethnicity

(2)

The Politics of Immigration The Politics of Immigration

(2)

The "Nationalization" of the States

(1)

Policy Responsibilities of States and Communities

(2)

"States," "Districts," and "Territories"

(3)

Trivia: What's in a Name

(3)

2 DEMOCRACY AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN THE STATES

(28)

Constitutional Government in the States

(6)

State Constitutions: An Overview

(3)

Constitutional Change in the States

(2)

Democracy in the States

(3)

Direct Versus Representative Democracy

(2)

The Politics of State Initiatives

(4)

Term Limit Battles

(3)

Politics of Constitutional Revision

(1)

Politics of State Constitutional Ratification

(1)

Trivia: Hawkeyes, Hoosiers, and the Lone Star

(3)

3 STATES, COMMUNITIES, AND AMERICAN FEDERALISM

(36)

What Is Federalism?

(1)

Why Federalism?

(2)

Federalism's Faults

(1)

The Structure of American Federalism

(5)

Battles in the States over Constitutional Amendments

(4)

Constitutional and Historical Development of Federalism

(3)

How Money Shifted Power to Washington

(2)

How Congress Raised the Drinking Age

(3)

The Politics of Grants-in-Aid

(2)

Federalism: Variations on the Theme

(2)

The Old "New Federalism"

(2)

Coercive Federalism: Mandates and Preemptions

(2)

Representational Federalism

(2)

"Devolution": The New New Federalism

(2)

Interstate Relations--Horizontal Federalism

(1)

Trivia: The Most Livable States

(2)

4 PARTICIPATION IN STATE POLITICS

(28)

The Nature of Political Participation

(1)

Explaining Voter Turnout

(4)

Voting in the States

(2)

Securing the Right to Vote

(6)

Voting and American Youth

104

(1)

Women in State Politics

105

(1)

Interest Groups in State Politics

106

(3)

Functions and Tactics of Interest Groups

109

(4)

Comparing Interest Group Power in the States

113

(3)

Protest as Political Participation

116

(3)

5 PARTIES AND CAMPAIGNS IN THE STATES

119

(26)

American Political Parties in Disarray

119

(3)

Republican and Democratic Party Fortunes

122

(1)

Party Competition in the States

123

(2)

The Policy Effects of Party Competition

125

(3)

The Party Activists

128

(2)

State Party Organizations

130

(3)

Parties and Primaries

133

(3)

Professional Mass Media Campaigns

136

(3)

Money in State Politics

139

(6)

6 LEGISLATORS IN STATE POLITICS

145

(40)

Functions of State Legislatures

145

(1)

The Making of a State Legislator

146

(6)

Getting to the State Capitol

152

(3)

The Great Incumbency Machine

155

(1)

The Unpopularity of Legislatures

156

(2)

Legislative Apportionment and Districting

158

(4)

Legislative Organization and Procedure

162

(4)

Informal Rules of the Game

166

(1)

Legislative Committees

167

(3)

Legislative Institutionalization

170

(4)

Leadership and Roll-Playing in Legislatures

174

(2)

Party Politics in State Legislatures

176

(2)

Are Legislators Responsible Policy Makers?

178

(2)

Lobbying in State Legislatures

180

(2)

Trivia: Songs, Flowers, Birds, and Trees

182

(2)

Legislatures in State Politics

184

(1)

7 GOVERNORS IN STATE POLITICS

185

(31)

The Many Roles of a Governor

185

(2)

The Making of a Governor

187

(2)

Gubernatorial Politics

189

(5)

Executive Power in State Government

194

(2)

The Governor's Managerial Powers

196

(5)

The Governor's Fiscal Powers

201

(2)

The Governor's Legislative Powers

203

(4)

Divided Government: Governor Versus the Legislature

207

(1)

Impeachments and Investigations

208

(1)

The Governor as Political Leader

209

(3)

Other Executive Offices

212

(2)

Trivia: States and Their Capitals

214

(2)

8 COURTS, CRIME, AND CORRECTIONAL POLICY

216

(44)

Politics and the Judicial Process

216

(2)

The Lawyering of America

218

(2)

The New Judicial Federalism

220

(1)

The Structure of Court Systems

221

(3)

The Making of a Judge

224

(4)

Judicial Decision Making: Trial Courts

228

(1)

Judicial Decision Making: State Supreme Courts

229

(2)

Crime in the States

231

(3)

The War on Drugs

234

(4)

Federalism and Law Enforcement

238

(1)

Police Protection in the States

239

(2)

Police and Law Enforcement

241

(3)

The Politics of Prosecution

244

(1)

Crime and the Courts

245

(2)

Crime and Deterrence

247

(3)

State Prisons and Correctional Policies

250

(6)

The Death Penalty

256

(2)

Trivia: Packing a Gun in the States

258

(2)

9 COMMUNITY POLITICAL SYSTEMS

260

(31)

Communities as Settings for Politics

260

(3)

Eighty-Six Thousand Governments: What They All Do

263

(1)

County Governments: Rural and Urban

264

(2)

The Structure of County Government

266

(6)

Cities as "Municipal Corporations"

272

(3)

Forms of City Government

275

(4)

Types of Cities and Forms of Government

279

(3)

Nonpartisan Elections

282

(3)

At-Large and District Elections

285

(3)

Trivia: The 100 Largest Governments in the United States

288

(3)

10 STYLES OF COMMUNITY POLITICS

291

(26)

Machines and Bosses

291

(3)

Machine and Reform Politics in Chicago

294

(5)

Reformers and Do-Gooders

299

(3)

The Triumph of Reform?

302

(2)

Reformism and Public Policy

304

(2)

Privatization as Reform

306

(2)

New Reforms: "Reinventing Government"

308

(2)

Political Corruption

310

(4)

The Radical Style: Politics in Berkeley

314

(2)

Trivia: The Most Livable Cities

316

(1)

11 PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY POLITICS

317

(31)

Citizen Participation

317

(3)

Big-City Politics

320

(2)

Getting into Community Politics

322

(4)

Women in Local Politics

326

(1)

Minorities in Local Politics

327

(3)

Council Members: Responsible Policy Makers?

330

(2)

City Councils and Public Policy

332

(1)

City Managers in Municipal Politics

333

(2)

Mayors in City Politics

335

(3)

Top Bananas in the Big Apple

338

(4)

Interest Groups in City Politics

342

(4)

The Power of Municipal Unions

346

(2)

12 METROPOLITICS: CONFLICT IN THE METROPOLIS

348

(27)

The Metropolis: Setting for Conflict

348

(6)

Cities Versus Suburbs

354

(3)

The Case for Metropolitan Consolidation

357

(2)

The Case for "Fragmented" Government

359

(2)

Metropolitan Government as Marketplace

361

(1)

"Solutions" to the Metropolitan Problem

362

(4)

The Politics of Metropolitan Consolidation

366

(3)

The Concentration of Social Problems in the Inner City

369

(1)

The Inner City: Racial Tensions and Rioting

370

(4)

Trivia: Urban Stress: Rating Metropolitan Areas

374

(1)

13 COMMUNITY POWER STRUCTURES

375

(18)

Models of Community Power

375

(1)

The Elite Model of Community Power

376

(3)

The Pluralist Model of Community Power

379

(1)

Different Approaches to the Study of Community Power

380

(4)

Systemic Power and Strategic Advantage

384

(2)

Economic Power in Communities

386

(2)

Political Power in Communities

388

(1)

Pluralism and Elitism Reconciled?

389

(4)

14 POLITICS AND CIVIL RIGHTS

393

(31)

From Protest to Power

393

(2)

The Struggle Against Segregation

395

(2)

State Resistance

397

(2)

Busing and Racial Balancing in Schools

399

(3)

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement

402

(2)

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

404

(2)

Affirmative Action Battles

406

(6)

Hispanic Power

412

(1)

Native Americans and Tribal Government

412

(5)

Americans with Disabilities

417

(1)

Gender Equality

417

(2)

Battles over Abortion

419

(5)

15 THE POLITICS OF EDUCATION

424

(32)

Goals in Educational Policy

424

(1)

Educational Performance Measurement

425

(3)

Educational Reform

428

(4)

"Reinventing" Education

432

(3)

The Limited Federal Role in Education

435

(2)

Organizing Public Education in the States

437

(1)

Battles over School Finances

438

(3)

Governing Local Schools

441

(1)

The School District Superintendents

442

(1)

School Boards: Responsible Policy Makers?

443

(2)

The Politics of Higher Education

445

(6)

Reading, Writing, and Religion

451

(2)

Trivia: The "Best-Educated" State Populations

453

(3)

16 THE POLITICS OF PLANNING, HOUSING, AND TRANSPORTATION

456

(24)

Controlling the Use of Land

456

(3)

Planners in Politics

459

(1)

Planning: Instruments of Control

460

(4)

Planning Practices

464

(1)

No-Growth Politics

465

(2)

Housing and Community Development Policy

467

(4)

National Transportation Policy

471

(4)

State Transportation Politics

475

(1)

Metropolitan Transportation

476

(2)

Trivia: The Biggest Landowner in the States

478

(2)

17 THE POLITICS OF POVERTY, WELFARE, AND HEALTH

480

(21)

Poverty in America

480

(2)

Who Are the Poor?

482

(1)

Poverty as Inequality

483

(3)

Federalism and Welfare Policy

486

(3)

Overview of Welfare Policy

489

(3)

Welfare Politics in the States

492

(2)

Welfare Reform in the States

494

(1)

Health Care Policy

495

(3)

Politics and Health Care Reform

498

(3)

18 THE POLITICS OF BUDGETING AND TAXATION

501

(24)

An Overview of Government Finances

501

(2)

Types of Taxes and Tax Politics

503

(4)

Explaining State Tax Systems

507

(2)

Revolting Against Taxes

509

(3)

Explaining Tax Revolts

512

(1)

City Fiscal Stress and Cutback Management

513

(3)

The Politics of Budgeting

516

(3)

When Ends Don't Meet: State and Local Debt

519

(3)

Orange County Goes Bankrupt

522

(1)

When a City Goes Bust

523

(2)

PHOTO CREDITS

525

(2)

INDEX

527

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