Governing States and Localities: Kevin B Smith, Alan Greenblatt, Michele Mariani: 9781604267280


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Publication Date: July 15, 2010 ISBN-10: 1604267283 ISBN-13 :978-1604267280: 3
Although the recession is nearing completion report, countries must strive to make ends meet, and in the foreseeable future. Select sometimes distinctive: the trade-off between the roads and schools, public safety and health care. The new version of the management of national and local response to this reality, a new, more focus on the economic and budgetary pressure. Chapter financial comes early in the book, the follow-up questions to help frame, and a new feature called “national stress” to help students see how fiscal and budgetary policies affect various areas of national and local governance.

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A series of well-designed features, require students to use comparative methods (“A difference in difference”), and how the relationship between the government affect the local (“Local Focus”), look at the example of how the actual implementation of the policy (“policy in practice “). With full-color design, more than 30 maps, vivid photographs, updated tables and figures, and the edge of the vocabulary combine your students to focus on lea