Governing: Issues and Applications From the Front Lines Of Government, 2nd Edition

An insightful observer and writer on state and local matters, Alan Ehrenhalt is executive editor of Governing magazine. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Slate magazine and is the recipient of the Carey McWilliams Award (2000) for career contributions by a journalist to the field of political science Tom Arrandale is a Livingston, Montana, freelancer who writes primarily about government pollution control and resource management policy. He writes a regular Governing magazine column on state and local environmental issues, in addition to occasional feature articles. He holds a bachelor of arts in history from Dartmouth College and a master of arts in journalism from the University of Missouri Gary Enos is executive editor at Manisses Communications Group, a Providence, R.I.-based publisher of newsletters, books and a magazine for mental health and addiction treatment professionals. He is a freelance writer on a variety of topics, including economic development, health care and growth management. He was a staff writer at the former City & State newspaper in New York City and at the Sun-Sentinel newspaper in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Enos is a graduate of Brown University and has a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Alan Ehrenhalt is the executive editor of Governing magazine, and an insightful observer and writer on state and local matters. His books include The United States of Ambition, The Lost City, and Democracy in the Mirror. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Slate magazine, and is the recipient of the Carey McWilliams Award (2000) for career contributions by a journalist to the field of political science Alan Greenblatt is a staff writer for Governing magazine, where he covers politics, health care and higher education. Before coming to Governing, Greenblatt was a writer for Congressional Quarterly, winning the National Press Club's Sandy Hume award for political reporting. He also writes frequently about books and the performing arts for the Washington Post and other publications Rob Gurwitt has written for Governing since its debut issue in 1987. He is now a freelance writer concentrating on how communities grapple with change. His articles have appeared in Mother Jones, Preservation, DoubleTake and The Wilson Quarterly. He graduated from Swarthmore College with a bachelor of arts in political science, and lives in Vermont Donald F. Kettl is Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also Nonresident Senior Fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution. He has previously taught at Columbia University, the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University. He is the author of and contributor to, among other works, The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transformation of Governance and Reinventing Government: A Fifth-Year Report Card. Professor Kettl has consulted broadly for government organizations at all levels of government and regularly contributes to discussions of public issues on radio and television. He has served as chair of the Wisconsin Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission on Campaign Finance Reform and chair of the Wisconsin Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission on State-Local Partnerships Penelope Lemov is the associate editor of Governing Magazine. As a reporter for Governing, she has been covering municipal finance for 14 years. As associate editor, she is in charge of the Business of Government section of the magazine, which includes news coverage of state and local government activities in finance, infrastructure, economic development, technology, management and environment. Before coming to Governing, she was Business Editor of Builder Magazine Charles Mahtesian was a staff writer at Governing magazine from 1992 to 2000. He wrote extensively about governors, state legislatures and urban politics. Before that, Mahtesian was a political writer for Congressional Quarterly's Weekly Report and a contributing writer to CQ's Politics in America and Congressional Districts in the 1990s. A native of Philadelphia, Mahtesian earned his undergraduate degree from Catholic University and a law degree from American University in Washington, D.C. Ellen Perlman has been a reporter with Governing Magazine for six years and before that spent six and a half years as a reporter for City & State Magazine, another publication for state and local government officials that has since been incorporated into Governing. Her reporting focus is on technology and she covers trends such as state and local government outsourcing and governments' move to the Internet. In addition to writing technology features for the magazine she also writes a technology column that appears every other month. It also can be found on Governing's Web site. She has a graduate degree in journalism from Northwestern University and has won several awards for her work, including a National Press Club award for Washington correspondence Christopher Swope is a Governing staff writer based in New York. In four years with the magazine, he has covered housing, economic development, management and other state and local public policy issues. Before coming to Governing, Swope was a researcher in Washington, D.C. with Congressional Quarterly's Weekly Report. He studied journalism and political science at American UniversityAlan Ehrenhalt is the author of 'Governing: Issues and Applications From the Front Lines Of Government, 2nd Edition', published 2005 under ISBN 9781568029955 and ISBN 1568029950.