Governing States and Localities

Product Description
From the implications of Donald Trump’s presidency on intergovernmental relations to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on state-federal relations, the
Eighth Edition of
Governing States and Localities introduces you to the most recent challenges, developments, and political changes impacting state and local politics. Employing a comparative approach, bestselling authors Kevin B. Smith and Alan Greenblatt illustrate the similarities and differences in the way states and local governments operate to show you the real-world application of policy and politics to governing, from laws and regulations to institutional structures. Following a crisp journalistic style with magazine-quality graphics and top ten takeaways in every chapter to keep students engaged, this edition provides a comprehensive introduction to state and local governments that is easily accessible to undergraduates in a variety of majors.
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Governing States and Localities - Vantage Digital Option, Eighth [ISBN: 978-1-0718-4117-4]
About the Author
Kevin B. Smith is professor and chair of the political science department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has been studying and teaching state politics and policy for more than twenty years. He has authored or co-authored nine books and dozens of scholarly articles, and is a former associate editor of State Politics & Policy Quarterly. Prior to becoming an academic he covered state and local politics as a newspaper reporter.
Alan Greenblatt, a reporter at NPR, has been writing about politics and government in Washington and the states for more than a decade. He won the National Press Club’s Sandy Hume award for political journalism while reporting for Congressional Quarterly. During his years at
Governing magazine, he covered issues of concern to state and local governments, including budgets, taxes, and higher education. Along the way, he has written about politics and culture for numerous other publications, including the
Washington Post and the
San Francisco Chronicle.