State and local politics : government by the people / James MacGregor Burns, J. W. Peltason, Thomas E. Cronin
Imprint
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1990
Edition
6th ed.
Descript
x, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
CONTENT
Who governs? state and local politics -- American federalism: problems and prospects -- State constitutions: charters or straitjackets? -- State legislatures -- State governors -- Judges and justice in the states -- Government at the grass roots -- Governing the supercity -- State and local policy making -- Staffing and financing state and local governments