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Community, Culture, and Economic Development, Second Edition
(December 2013)
Continuity and Change in Two Small Southern Towns
Meredith Ramsay - Author
Kirkland J. Hall Sr. - Foreword by
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Newly updated comparative study of economic development policy, and its relationship with local power structures and cultural and social relations, in two Maryland towns.
Community economic development is conventionally explained using one of two models: a market model that assumes individuals always attempt to maximize their wealth, or a growth model that assumes land use is controlled by real estate developers who invariably pu...(Read More) |
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Cities for Sale
(May 2013)
Municipalities as Public Relations and Marketing Firms
Staci M. Zavattaro - Author
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Examines how US cities have adopted the tactics of public relations and marketing firms to “brand” themselves.
Today’s cities are competing with each other on many levels—for our business, for our residency, for our tourism dollars, for our employment, and much more. Especially in light of market models of governance seeping into the public sector, it has become both necessary and prudent for city staff to...(Read More) |
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Governing New York State, Sixth Edition
(December 2012)
Robert F. Pecorella - Editor
Jeffrey M. Stonecash - Editor
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Comprehensive overview of New York State’s politics, political institutions, and major public policies.
New York contains greater diversity than almost any other state. This diversity creates extensive social and political conflict within the state. Governing New York State, Sixth Edition provides expert assessment of how these conflicts are organized and represented, and how the political process and political in...(Read More) |
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Interstate Water Compacts
(December 2012)
Intergovernmental Efforts to Manage America's Water Resources
Joseph F. Zimmerman - Author
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Examines intergovernmental efforts within the United States to manage the nation’s water supply.
Long taken for granted, water resources are rapidly becoming a contentious issue within American politics. Continuing population growth and rapid development, coupled with environmental events such as droughts, have led to increasing water shortages in sections of the nation. In Interstate Water Compacts author Josep...(Read More) |
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Interstate Cooperation, Second Edition
(June 2012)
Compacts and Administrative Agreements
Joseph F. Zimmerman - Author
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First in-depth examination of the various forms of interstate cooperation and their central role promoting a successful federal system of government in the United States.
Cooperative interstate relations are essential for maintaining the economic and political union established by the United States Constitution. Despite this importance, the study of interstate compacts, federal-state compacts, and interstate administrative agreem...(Read More) |
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Horizontal Federalism
(May 2011)
Interstate Relations
Joseph F. Zimmerman - Author
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Provides detailed information and an analysis of interstate relations, and advances recommendations to improve the economic and political union.
Cooperative interstate relations are essential for the maintenance of the economic union and the political union established by a confederacy or a federacy. This suggests that interstate relations would be featured prominently in the literature of the U.S. federal system, yet relatively ...(Read More) |
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Universal Preschool
(March 2009)
Policy Change, Stability, and the Pew Charitable Trusts
Brenda K. Bushouse - Author
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2011 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Book Prize, presented by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
Examines recent trends in state-funded preschool education.
The spectacular recent success of state-funded preschool education is revealed and explained in this absorbing study. A quiet revolution has been underway in American education policy since 1995, with forty-one states...(Read More) |
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The Government and Politics of New York State
(March 2008)
Second Edition
Joseph F. Zimmerman - Author
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Comprehensive overview of New York State government and politics.
In this updated edition of his classic text, Joseph F. Zimmerman offers a balanced presentation of the institutions and political processes of the Empire State. He begins with an overview of the state and offers chapters on federal-state and interstate relations; state-local relations; the constitution; political parties, elections, and interest groups; the state leg...(Read More) |
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Business Improvement Districts and the Shape of American Cities
(January 2008)
Jerry Mitchell - Author
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Examines the impact of business improvement districts on the quality of contemporary civic life.
Jerry Mitchell provides a comprehensive analysis of business improvement districts (BIDs)—public-private partnerships that shape city places into enticing destinations for people to work, live, and have fun. Responsible for the revitalization of New York’s Times Square and Seattle’s Pioneer Square, BIDs operate in larg...(Read More) |
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Education Reform in Florida
(March 2007)
Diversity and Equity in Public Policy
Kathryn M. Borman - Editor
Sherman Dorn - Editor
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Describes and analyzes nation-leading school reforms in Florida.
In Education Reform in Florida, sociologists and historians evaluate Governor Jeb Bush’s nation-leading school reform policies since 1999. They examine the startlingly broad range of education policy changes enacted in Florida during Bush’s first term, including moves toward privatization with a voucher system, more government control of public educa...(Read More) |
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