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| The Context for State and Local Politics Government | |
| New Directions for State and Local Government | |
| Studying State and Local Government in the 21st Century | |
| The Capacity of States and Localities | |
| The People: Designers and Consumers of Government Linking Capacity to Results | |
| Federalism and the States | |
| The Concept of Federalism | |
| The History of U.S. Federalism | |
| Intergovernmental Relations Models of Federalism | |
| Federal Purse Strings The Future of Federalism | |
| State Constitutions | |
| The Evolution of State Constitutions | |
| Weaknesses of Constitutions | |
| Constitutional Reform | |
| Methods for Constitutional | |
| Change State Responsiveness and Constitutional Reform | |
| Citizen Participation and Elections Participation Elections | |
| Election-Day Lawmaking Citizen Access to Government Volunteerism | |
| The Effects of Citizen Participation | |
| Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Campaigns | |
| Political Parties | |
| Interest Groups | |
| Political Campaigns | |
| The Institutions of State Government | |
| State Legislatures | |
| The Essence of Legislatures | |
| Legislative Dynamics | |
| Legislative Behavior | |
| Legislative Cue-Taking | |
| How a Bill Becomes a Law Legislative | |
| Reform and Capacity Relationship with the Executive Branch | |
| Legislatures and Capacity | |
| Governors | |
| The Office of Governor | |
| Being Governor: Duties and Responsibilities | |
| Formal Powers of the Governor | |
| Informal Powers Removal from Office | |
| Other Executive Branch Officials | |
| The Vigor of U.S. Governors | |
| Public Administration: Budgeting and Service Delivery | |
| Public Employees in State and Local Government: Who They Are, What They Do Budgeting in State and Local Government | |
| Personnel Policy in State and Local Government: From Patronage to Merit | |
| The Politics of Bureaucracy Reinventing Government | |
| The Quality of Public Administration | |
| The Judiciary | |
| The Structure of State Court Systems | |
| How Judges Are Selected Judicial Decisionmaking | |
| New Judicial Federalism State Court Reform | |
| Local Governments...and the States | |
| The Structure of Local Government Orientations to Communities | |
| County Government | |
| Municipal Government | |
| Towns and Townships | |
| Special Districts | |
| School Districts | |
| Communities and Governance | |
| Local Leadership and Governance Community Power | |
| Local Executives | |
| Local Legislatures Leadership and Capacity | |
| State-Local Relations | |
| The Distribution of Authority | |
| State-Local Organizations | |
| Metropolitics: A New Challenge for State Government | |
| States and Urban Policy | |
| States and their Rural Communities | |
| The Interaction of State and Local Governments | |
| State and Local Finance | |
| The Principles of Finance Revenues | |
| The Political Economy of Taxation Borrowing and Debt | |
| State and Local Financial Relations | |
| State and Local Finance at the Millennium | |
| Public Policy in States and Localities | |
| Economic Development | |
| Regional Differences in Economic Prosperity | |
| Approaches to Economic Development | |
| The Politics of Economic Development | |
| Current Initiatives Issues in Economic Development | |
| The Implications of Economic Development Policy | |
| Education Policy | |
| The Crisis in Education | |
| Intergovernmental Roles in Education | |
| Actors in Education Policy | |
| Educational Innovation in the States | |
| The Continuing Challenge of Public Education | |
| Criminal Justice | |
| How Much Crime Is There? | |
| Intergovernmental Roles in Criminal Justice | |
| Actors in Criminal Justice Policy | |
| How Policy Participants Interact: Two Policy Areas | |
| Correctional Policy | |
| Policy Alternatives for States and Localities | |
| The Continuing Challenge in Crime and Corrections | |
| Social Welfare and Health Care Policy | |
| The Meaning of Poverty Social Welfare and Ideology | |
| Current Social Welfare Policy | |
| Types of Social Welfare Programs | |
| State Innovations in Social Welfare Turning | |
| Welfare Checks into Paychecks | |
| Health Care | |
| Environmental Policy | |
| The Political Economy of Environmental Protection | |
| Intergovernmental Relationships in Environmental Policy | |
| Solid Waste Management: Garbage and What to Do with It | |
| Hazardous Waste: The Politics of Confusion | |
| Nuclear Waste: The Lingering Horror Environmental Justice | |
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