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Solving Problems Without Large Government circumvents sterile discussions of federalism and privatization by discussing the potential role of sub-local government-assisted entities in providing effective and fair access to services.

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Draws on the authors practical experience and her research to provide a broad perspective on the challenge of state and local pensions. Alicia H. Munnell shows that the story is big and complicated and cannot be viewed through a narrow prism such as accounting methods or the role of unions.

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In fear of becoming havens for illegal immigrants, numerous local communities adopted and implemented their own immigration laws during the 2000s. Suburban Crossroads chronicles the debates and policy responses that emerged over laws like the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, and then evaluates the future prospects for suburban growth and decline.

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The essays in The California Republic explore the evolution of Progressivism in California and also its contemporary policy consequences. Designed to work in tandem with other texts or as a stand-alone reader, the book examines themes ranging from founding principles to instit...

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Tells the dramatic story of how the nation's second-largest city completed a major reform of its government in the face of a deeply threatening movement for secession by the San Fernando Valley. The afterword by the author analyzes the 2005 election of Los Angeles's first modern Latino mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa.

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The first comprehensive analysis of the design and effects of tax and expenditure limitations (TELs), The Control of Municipal Budgetsshows how limitation measures have worked and offers practical guidelines for analyzing and designing such programs under current economic and political conditions.

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This book examines the leadership of former Washington, DC, Mayor Anthony Williams during his tenure in the office from 1998 to 2006. Williamss effectiveness is analyzed using a unique model for political leadership, described as the ideal type of mayoral leadership (ITML).

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John Witte provides a framework for understanding the Milwaukee experiment and its implications for the market approach to American education.

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An in-depth survey of the implications of development strategies and how these impact democracy in Morocco.

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This is the first major study of politics and public administration in Japan to balance the prevailing view of the regional policy process from above" with a view "from below." Developing a comparative framework for understanding the place of localities in policy making, he demonstrates that relations among localities in Japan are much more importa

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This broad-ranging new text analyses the shape of urban politics and governance in the 21st century. The author identifies 4 main 'models' of urban governance - 'management', 'corporatist'. 'pro-growth' and 'welfare' - and assesses their different implications for the major issues, interests and problems in the contemporary urban arena.

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Takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish-American War to the fields of Vietnam, the wars of the Middle East, and the democracies of Latin America and Europe.

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Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects , the third in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.

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Although considerable attention has been focused on the selection of minority candidates for political office, the impact of the increasing numbers of high-level minority administrative appointees has not been systematically examined.

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San Antonio's former mayor reveals how principled leadership and compassionate governance can unite communities and navigate any crisis.

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Comparing developments across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, this textbook enables students to discover, understand and identify the scope and use of social policy over the last decade by the devolved administrations.