By Christopher Z. Mooney, Daniel A. Smith Todd Donovan
During this moment version of nation and native POLITICS: associations AND REFORM, Donovan, Mooney, and Smith transcend the merely descriptive therapy frequently present in nation and native texts. First, the publication deals an interesting comparative strategy, displaying scholars how politics and govt vary among states and groups, and declaring the reasons and results of these diversifications. moment, it specializes in what social scientists find out about the consequences of ideas and associations on politics and coverage. This comparative, institutional framework allows scholars to imagine extra analytically concerning the influence of associations on coverage results, asks them to guage the effectiveness of 1 institutional technique over one other, and encourages them to contemplate extra subtle ideas. kingdom and native POLITICS: associations AND REFORM is the one textual content of its variety to devote 3 complete chapters to direct democracy, land use coverage, and morality politics. in the course of the textual content, boxed beneficial properties intricate at the topics of associations, comparability, and reform, supplying thought-provoking, concrete examples of the problems at nation and native degrees in order that scholars can know how associations and platforms impact participants. New "You come to a decision" packing containers and dialogue Questions on the finish of every bankruptcy ask scholars to use serious considering to the topic to hand. additionally, bright tables, maps, graphs, and images give you the visible instruments that scholars have to approach unique comparative information concerning the states. Written by way of 3 younger, high-profile experts who've contributed considerably to the sphere within the final decade, kingdom and native POLITICS: associations AND REFORM, moment variation, accommodates into the path the newest scholarship to be had, giving scholars entry to views that no different textbook out there presently presents.
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971). Chapter 1 Introduction to State and Local Politics 11 Michael Newman / PhotoEdit do so, who should benefit, and how we are going to pay for them. Politics consists of elections, campaigns, lobbying, lawmaking, and much else that we see daily in the news, and each of these affects these important decisions about government action. This is most obvious in election campaigns. For example, one candidate for mayor wants to encourage economic growth in her city, while the other one focuses on preserving the environment and lowering the crime rate.
36 34 Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart, Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004). 35 James A. Morone, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003). S. Counties, WR-211(Santa Monica, CA: RAND Labor and Population working paper series, 2004). aspx). America’s great economic, social, and racial diversity are reflected in the great diversity of the policy and politics of the states and communities.
At root, every policy helps provide some public good. For example, a road’s speed limit is reduced from 30 to 15 miles per hour in a school zone because it is in the city’s common 12 Chapter 1 Introduction to State and Local Politics interests to protect young children from harm. Sometimes a government worker’s action may not seem like a public policy and sometimes the public good behind a policy is hard to see. For example, professors at the University of Iowa are required to give a final exam in every undergraduate class.