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Title:

State and local government, 2007 / edited by Kevin B. Smith.

Publisher:

CQ Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

x, 216 : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Local government--United States.
State governments.

Other Authors:

Smith, Kevin B., 1963-
Congressional Quarterly, inc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

The Katrina breakdown / Jonathan Walters and Donald Kettl -- Stressed responders / Jonathan Walters -- Congressional preemption : removal of state regulatory powers / Joseph F. Zimmerman -- Compacts are contracts / Jack Penchoff -- Schwarzenegger rebuffed / Daniel Weintraub -- Coloradans reach their limit with TABOR / Chris Frates -- Home state blues : republicans face tough foes in red state democratic governors / Dan Seligson -- Long lines, voting machine availability, and turnout : the case of Franklin County, Ohio, in the 2004 presidential election / Benjamin Highton -- Retail politics alive and well: large media buys have limited effectiveness in small populations states / David Mark -- Theory of partisan relativity / Alan Ehrenhalt -- Partisan buster / Cynthia Kyle -- Making ends meet : state parties struggle to shore up their finances / Morgan E. Felchner -- Lobby decoration / Alan Greenblatt -- Church and state / Alan Greenblatt -- Effects of term limits in Arizona : irreparable damages / Jake Flake -- The truth about term limits / Alan Greenblatt -- Instant influence / Christopher Swope -- Wise women / Leah Oliver -- The last one-term state house / Rob Gurwitt -- A governor's guide to emergency management / Ann M. Beauchesne -- States of progress / Laura Coleman --
Robe warriors / Zach Patton -- The "angriest crocodile" : information costs, direct democracy activists, and the polarization of state judicial elections / Mathew Manweller -- Courts are different / Luke Bierman -- The code war / Christopher Swope -- A state shapes up / Ellen Perlman -- The ERPWORKS / Ellen Perlman -- Toll road tips to privatization / Laura Coleman -- Wilder's last crusade / Rob Gurwitt -- Battle of the badges / John Buntin -- Land law / Alan Greenblatt -- Toil and trouble / Jonathan Walters -- State budgets : bliss or blues / Corina Eckl -- States wrangle with corrections budgets / Arturo Peréz -- Plight of the benefits / Alan Greenblatt -- Hard luck on slots / Ellen Perlman -- Issues to watch / Josh Goodman -- Energy crisis déjà vu / Matthew H. Brown -- Preparing for a pandemic / Amy Winterfeld -- Higher ed : dangers of an unplanned future / Stanley Ikenberry -- Revolution in evolution? / Sara Vitaska.

ISBN:

9780872892972
0872892972

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76821811

Locations:

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)