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Governing : issues and applications from the front lines of government /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ehrenhalt, Alan, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, [2005]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
State governments > United States.
Local government > United States.
Federal government > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • STRUCTURE. Are city councils a relic of the past?
  • Anatomy of a merger
  • In search of the ideal legislature
  • The phantom of New York
  • MONEY. The great GASB
  • Insufficient funds
  • The well that dried up
  • Risky ventures
  • HUMAN RESOURCES. Worth the money?
  • Going outside
  • Payout planning
  • Civil service tsunami
  • TECHNOLOGY. The dot-bomb's silver lining
  • Legislators who get IT
  • Dealing in data
  • Honey, I shrunk the defecit!
  • REGULATION. Trading for clean water
  • The e-mail mess
  • Who's afraid of the DMV?
  • Unscrambling the city
  • POLICY. Crime. Murder mystery
  • Revising sentences
  • Health. Deadly strains
  • Maine's medical gamble
  • Education. The left behind syndrome
  • Edge-ucation
  • Homeland security. Politics and promises
  • Breaking and entering
  • FEDERALISM. Enemies of the state
  • Made in Sacramento
  • Squeezing the federal turnip
  • HUD the unlovable
  • ETHICS. The avengers general
  • That clean-all-over feeling
  • Addicted to corruption
  • The soft-money crackdown
  • LEADERSHIP. Suggar daddy government
  • How to win friends and repair a city
  • Capital gains
  • Huge turnover in hard times.