State and Local Politics Institutions and Reform

ISBN: 9781285441405 出版年：2014 页码：650 Todd Donovan Daniel A Smith Christopher Z Mooney Tracy Osborn Cengage

1. Introduction to State and Local Politics. 2. Federalism: State Politics within a Federal System. 3. Participation, Elections, and Representation. 4. State and Local Direct Democracy. 5. Political Parties. 6. Interest Groups. 7. State Legislatures. 8. Governors and the State Bureaucracy. 9. The Court System and Criminal Justice. 10. The Structure of Municipal Governments. 11. The Politics of Land Use and Development. 12. State and Local Fiscal Policy. 13. Morality Politics. 14. Social Welfare and Health Care Politics. 15. Education Politics. Glossary. Index.