Politics, Policy and Management in the American States

This timely text highlights the substance and politics of state government, shedding light on the issues facing the state policy makers today. Presenting examples and illustrations drawn from the entire country, it conveys and explains the broad-based rejuvenation of the states as focal points of domestic policy in the federal system. A thorough introductions to the intergovernmental context of state politics, and the institutions of state government, Politics, Policy, and Management in the American States includes a number of features unique to a text of this kind. Consistently focusing on the state as policy maker, it includes sperate chapters on direct citizen democracy; state regulation; budgeting; financial management- including a section on financial and program auditing - and personnel management, The text also incorporates a substantial section on the state attorney general along with its discussion of state courts.