State and Local Government Public Life in America

This lively book is intended to show what state and local governments actually do and especially how their role in American public life has grown over the past twenty years. Such chapters as "Capitol City Players: Everyday Politics in the States" make this material, which often appears dull in competing books, interesting and important. This text is briefer than many texts in this market and is also a paperback.-- The authors cover public policy in the context of the political "give-and-take" that produces it, rather than in standalone chapters at the end of the book.-- Elsewhere in the World boxes-cover state and local governments in other countries to expand readers' comparative knowledge. Some topics are Utility Regulation in India, and Philippine Trial CourtsCox, George is the author of 'State and Local Government Public Life in America' with ISBN 9780534555429 and ISBN 053455542X.