This book introduces students to the complex landscape of state-local intergovernmental relations today. The contributors, leading experts in the field, help students enhance their understanding of the importance of state-local relations in the U.S. federal system, argue for better analysis of the consequences of state-local relations for the quality of policy outcomes, and introduce them to public service career opportunities in state and local government.
This book offers an overview of the legal, political, and broad intergovernmental environment in which relations between local and state units of government take place, the historical roots of the conflict among them, and an analysis of ...
This book examines how informal institutions and practices can provide political influence beyond formal structures, with reference to an extensive range of institutions, practices, policies and political decisions.
Metropolitan Governance is the first book to bring together competing perspectives on the question and consequences of centralized vs. decentralized regional government.
Suburban Reform and Its Consequences : A Study in Representation . Chicago : University of Chicago Press ... “ Lifestyle Values and Political Decentralization in Metropolitan Areas . ... Suburban Differences and Metropolitan Policies .
This book is about why and how central and local governments clash over important national policy decisions.
... district councils are slightly more opposed (50%) than at-large councils (48%). 36. Donald D. Rosenthal and Robert L. Crain, “Structure and Values in Local Political Systems: The Case of Fluoridation Decisions,” in James Q. Wilson ...
This Toolkit provides non-technical, practical help to enable officials to recognise conflict of interest situations and help them to ensure that integrity and reputation are not compromised.
principle to settle reforms to legal profession regulation by May 2011 (with the exception of Western Australia and South ... and safeguarding an independent legal profession' (Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner, 2015).
Denmark is regarded by many as a model European country. In a short space of time unemployment rates have more than halved, inflation has remained low and the welfare state...
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