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This collection of 12 case studies illustrates the range of problems facing mid-sized cities in the USA and the variety of approaches that mayors have used to cope with them. Topics covered include education, crime, economic development and the political incorporation of minorities.

Provides a guided tour of the inner workings of the election campaign process, demystifing the often murky world of professional politics. It offers a unique blend of theory and practice that draws on the experiences of political scientists who have played such key roles as campaign managers, consultants, media advisers, and even candidates. Highlighting lessons learned, the authors provide a unique introduction to both the study and the execu...

Offering a blend of theory and practice, this book draws on the experiences of campaign managers, consultants, media advisers, and candidates to provide first-hand accounts of races run at the local, state, and national levels and which reveal modern electoral process.

Increasingly, state regulations are implemented and exercised by the administrative discretion of state bureaucracies. This increased rulemaking activity threatens to rival, or even replace, state legislatures as the principal source of new laws emanating from state government. To combat this, state legislatures now routinely seek to regain their preeminence as lawmakers by overseeing administrative rulemaking authority. This oversight is freq...

Bowers argues that, when correctly interpreted and applied, the Constitution and the theory of liberty on which it is based require government to reject the conventional pro-choice and anti-abortion perspectives as too extreme and incomplete. Instead, this book sets forth a position that government is constitutionally obligated to approach abortion policy from a middle perspective. Relying on a jurisprudence of original theory, Pro-Choice and ...