This text provides an array of viewpoints on the impact in the US of major institutional changes in the states and localities since the 1970s. It discusses the status of state and local government practices and the challenges facing officials as they enter the next millennium.

This text brings together a team of scholars from state and local government and politics to provide an array of viewpoints on the impact in the US of major institutional changes in the states and localities since the 1970s. The contributors discuss the status of state and local government practices and point out the challenges facing officials as they enter the next millennium. The book is aimed at upper-level undergraduates.

States and localities transformed, Ronald E. Weber and Paul Brace
federalism and subnational governance, Robert M. Stein
governors - their heritage and future, Nelson C. Dometrius
the institutional legislature and the rise of the anti-politics era, Paul Brace and Daniel S. Ward
statehouse bureaucracy - institutional, consistency in a changing environment, Charles Barrilleaux
state judicial politics - rules, structures, and the political game, Melinda Gann Hall
the embattled mayors and local executives, James H, Svara
the resurgent city councils, Susan MacManus. (Part contents)