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This biography of Richard Spencer Childs, depicts Childs as an archetype of reform in the Progressive Era.

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This is the first comprehensive account of the policies of the Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region combined authorities during the first terms of Mayors Burnham and Rotheram, from 201721.

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This study explores the impact of water policy on California's environment, urban development, and quality of life, arguing that it is time for the state to limit growth and implement serious conservation measures.

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This pioneering study explores the problems of politics and law that lie behind the growing phenomenon of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), a stance taken by residential property owners attempting to keep various types of facilities out of their neighborhoods.

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Explaining local government uniquely presents a history of local government in Britain since 1800 until the present day. The study explains how the institution evolved from a structure that appeared to be relatively free from central government interference to one of the most centralised systems of government in the Western world. -- .

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Utilizing FBI surveillance documents this multi-chapter book reveals hidden histories of five persons, two organizations, and one event all related to Mexicans and their Chicanos in the U.S.

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Utilizing FBI surveillance documents this multi-chapter book reveals hidden histories of five persons, two organizations, and one event all related to Mexicans and their Chicanos in the U.S.

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A look at the heart of our political process by a man who has crossed over from observer to activist, to become one of our newest members of parliament.

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The definitive account of the Labor era in NSW, From Carr to Keneally explains how the Labor government came to be so reviled by the public, yet retained power for so many years.

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A study of the effects of decentralization on thirty Mexican municipalities. It describes how local governments respond when they are assigned new responsibilities and resources under decentralization policies. It explains why decentralization leads to better local governments in some cases - and why it fails to in others.

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State and local governments emerged as important interest groups in the 1960s, as that decade witnessed a rapid expansion of federal social programs administered at the state and local levels.

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Governors in the United States are becoming prime policy makers in state and national politics. They preside over vast and increasingly important administrative structures through numerous appointments of key personnel and the management of growing budgets. Governors provide l...

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The Innovations in American Government Awards Program began in 1985 with a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard to conduct a program of awards for innovations in state and local government.

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Due to state and federally mandated programs, local governments are increasingly resorting to innovative and alternative means of performing their functions because taxpayers are becoming more resistant to tax increases.

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This text provides a comprehensive examination of US interstate relations, with up-to-date information and analysis relative to interstate suits, full faith and credit, privileges and immunities, tax exportation by states, interstate business competition, and interstate trade barriers.

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This pioneering biography breaks new ground about Colonial America and about James Glen, correcting major misconceptions. Glen was appointed royal governor of Colonial South Carolina in 1738 and came to the colony in 1743 to serve until 1756, the longest tenure of any governor during its Colonial period.

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Focuses on John Quincy Adams' role in foreign policy, including his years as secretary of state and as president.

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Through a series of studies surveying Latinos throughout the US, this work shows that Latino Americans are more like other Americans with respect to foreign policy than is popularly assumed. At the same time, differences between and among various Latino communities exist.

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From data gathered in the legislatures of four states --California, New Jersey, Ohio, and Tennessee--Eulau and Sprague here present a lucid analysis of the lawyer's ubiquity in politics and of the political behavior of lawyer-legislators.