How American Governments Work: A Handbook of City, County, Regional, State, and Federal OperationsRoger L. Kemp McFarland, 1 thg 1, 2002 - 440 trang During the past two decades, many countries in the world have peacefully undergone a transition to more popular forms of self-governance. The United States represents the world model for evolving forms of democracy. This volume details how government currently works in America. Forty essays examine the condition of all five levels of government in America--city, county, regional, state, and federal. They describe and examine the structures, operations and services provided by each level, as well as how they are financed. |
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Blackman and Erich R Luschei | 23 |
The Voting Rights Act and the Supreme Court | 34 |
Redistricting and the Supreme Court | 44 |
Voting Rights Remedies | 55 |
City Government | 63 |
City Government Forms | 71 |
The CouncilManager Plan | 87 |
City Government Structures | 90 |
State Government | 219 |
The Structure of State Government | 229 |
The States and the City Governments | 250 |
The Power Struggle Continues | 276 |
Overview of the Federal Government | 287 |
The Complexity of the Federal Government | 297 |
The Congress | 305 |
The Supreme Court | 318 |
Separating the Powers | 105 |
William H Hansell Jr | 111 |
County Government | 117 |
County Governments and Change | 123 |
CityCounty Consolidations | 135 |
The Evolutionary Consolidation Model | 144 |
Counties in Transition | 154 |
Regional Government | 161 |
Regional Cooperation | 177 |
Regional Government and Regional Councils | 192 |
Fiscal Regionalism | 199 |
Regional Government and the PostIndustrial Economy | 208 |
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