Governing States and Localities - Couverture souple

Smith, Kevin B.; Greenblatt, Alan H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1483378039 ISBN 13 : 9781483378039

Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 2015

Synopsis

The recession-era days of state reliance on the federal government are waning. States and localities are increasingly assertive in seeking independence from Washington’s policy priorities, especially when those priorities clash with their partisan leanings. Kevin Smith and Alan Greenblatt’s trusted and proven text employs a comparative approach to show how the geography, history, political culture, institutional structures, economic underpinnings, and demographics of states and localities both clash and converge in comprehensible, telling ways. Why does one state pass stricter gun control standards while another loosens them? What are the implications of state legalization of marijuana when the federal government still calls it illegal? Smith and Greenblatt provide students with the tools to begin answering these questions. Students will appreciate the book’s journalistic writing, yet come away with a foundation in the latest scholarship and the ability to do their own comparative analysis. The Fifth Edition features extensive updating to account for such major developments as the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, the education debate over the Common Core State Standards, and the implications for residents when localities succumb to bankruptcy.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Kevin B. Smith is the Leland J. and Dorothy H. Olson Chair of Political Science at the

University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author or coauthor of 10 books on politics and policy,

as well as numerous scholarly articles on state politics and policy. Prior to becoming an academic,

he covered state and local politics as a newspaper reporter. You can follow him on Twitter at @

nivek_htims.

Alan Greenblatt is a reporter at Governing magazine and has been writing about politics and

government in Washington, D.C., and the states for more than two decades. As a reporter for

Congressional Quarterly, he won the National Press Club’s Sandy Hume Memorial Award for

Excellence in Political Journalism. At Governing, he has covered numerous issues of concern to

state and local governments, such as budgets, taxes, and higher education. Along the way, he has

written about politics and culture for many other outlets, including NPR, the New York Times,

and the Washington Post. He’s on Twitter at @AlanGreenblatt.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1483378039
• ISBN 13: 9781483378039
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 5
• Nombre de pages: 656
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible