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| Note: Each chapter concludes with Key Terms and Surfing the 'Net | |
| New Directions for State and Local Government | |
| The Study of State and Local Government | |
| State and Local Government Capacity | |
| The People: Designers and Consumers of Government From Capacity to Proactivity | |
| 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 | |
| State Legislatures | |
| The Essence of Legislatures | |
| Legislative Dynamics | |
| Legislative Behavior | |
| How a Bill Becomes Law Legislative | |
| Reform and Capacity Relationship with the Executive Branch | |
| Legislatures and Capacity | |
| Governors | |
| The Office of Governor | |
| The Roles of the Governor: Duties and Responsibilities | |
| Formal Powers of the Governor | |
| Informal Powers Removal from Office | |
| Other Executive Branch | |
| Officials Vigor of U.S. Governors | |
| Public Administration: Budgeting, Bureaucracy, and Service Delivery | |
| Public Employees in State and Local Governments: 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Crime and Criminal Justice | |
| State-Local Relations | |
| The Distribution of Authority | |
| State-Local Organizations Metropolitics: A New Challenge for State Government | |
| States and Their Rural Communities | |
| The Interaction of State and Local Governments | |
| Local Government: Structure and Leadership | |
| Five Types of Local Governments | |
| Leadership in Local Government | |
| The Issue of Governance | |
| Taxing and Spending | |
| The Principles of Finance Revenues | |
| The Political Economy of Taxation | |
| Borrowing and Debt | |
| Where All the Money Goes: State and Local Spending | |
| State and Local Finance at the Millennium | |
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