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• catalog contributor b11141665.
• catalog created "c1998.".
• catalog date "1998".
• catalog date "c1998.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
• catalog description "1. The government we deserve -- Will term limits do anything about microwave government? -- Redistricting and the erosion of community -- If term limits are the answer, what's the question? -- Let the people decide between spinach and broccoli -- The court that forgot about politics -- American politics : the last refuge of poor quality -- 2. Leaders and followers -- The virtue of modest accomplishments -- The remarkable resilience of "politics as usual" -- The debilitating search for a flabby consensus -- The need for a few good hacks -- 3. Who speaks for the city? -- The modern urban dilemma : who speaks for the city? -- I'll match your nine lobbyists and raise you twelve -- The underclass and the suburban solution -- The bitter costs of municipal sibling rivalry -- The unraveling of a local government -- Are developers still invincible in local politics? -- The consequences of public compassion.".
• catalog description "4. The search for community -- Up against the Wal-Mart -- Looking for the latte life -- Village signs and veto power -- Fast horses and strong neighborhoods -- Neotraditionalism and the corner store -- The dilemma of the new urbanists -- 5. Reinvention and reality -- The urge to measure everything that moves -- Can we repeal the first law of civic griping? -- To innovate, you have to know how to multiply -- Performance budgeting, thy name is ... -- In search of a world-class mission statement -- 6. Devolution fever -- The locust in the garden of government -- Mandating form above : the irresistible impulse -- Out in the states, it's not the 1930s anymore -- The devil in devolution -- The increasing irrelevance of congress -- 7. The semi-reformed legislature -- The political virtue of partisan deadlock -- Twilight of the bubba era -- The ethical conflicts that won't go away -- Legislatures and the salary-mismatch syndrome.".
• catalog description "8. The corruption obsession -- The big numbers that government can't bring down -- The costly medicine of corruption fighting -- The utter uselessness of 1990s-style corruption -- The unaccountable institution -- Is the age of entrapment coming to an end? -- 9. The follies of liberalism -- Newspaper crusades and dangerous illusions -- The temptation to hand out irrelevant entitlements -- The radical idea of neighborhood schools -- Lucky winners in the housing sweepstakes -- The intellectual regalia of thirty years ago -- 10. The mysteries of economics -- The most misleading question in government : "how much does it cost?" -- Will moral responsibility keep the local factory open? -- When politicians get that free-market religion -- The dangers of making sin scarce -- Why we're so hooked on credentialism.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 197).".
• catalog extent "ix, 197 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Democracy in the mirror.".
• catalog identifier "156802441X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Democracy in the mirror.".
• catalog issued "1998".
• catalog issued "c1998.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly,".
• catalog relation "Democracy in the mirror.".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "320.973/09/049 21".
• catalog subject "JS323 .E37 1998".
• catalog subject "Local government United States.".
• catalog subject "State governments United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The government we deserve -- Will term limits do anything about microwave government? -- Redistricting and the erosion of community -- If term limits are the answer, what's the question? -- Let the people decide between spinach and broccoli -- The court that forgot about politics -- American politics : the last refuge of poor quality -- 2. Leaders and followers -- The virtue of modest accomplishments -- The remarkable resilience of "politics as usual" -- The debilitating search for a flabby consensus -- The need for a few good hacks -- 3. Who speaks for the city? -- The modern urban dilemma : who speaks for the city? -- I'll match your nine lobbyists and raise you twelve -- The underclass and the suburban solution -- The bitter costs of municipal sibling rivalry -- The unraveling of a local government -- Are developers still invincible in local politics? -- The consequences of public compassion.".
• catalog tableOfContents "4. The search for community -- Up against the Wal-Mart -- Looking for the latte life -- Village signs and veto power -- Fast horses and strong neighborhoods -- Neotraditionalism and the corner store -- The dilemma of the new urbanists -- 5. Reinvention and reality -- The urge to measure everything that moves -- Can we repeal the first law of civic griping? -- To innovate, you have to know how to multiply -- Performance budgeting, thy name is ... -- In search of a world-class mission statement -- 6. Devolution fever -- The locust in the garden of government -- Mandating form above : the irresistible impulse -- Out in the states, it's not the 1930s anymore -- The devil in devolution -- The increasing irrelevance of congress -- 7. The semi-reformed legislature -- The political virtue of partisan deadlock -- Twilight of the bubba era -- The ethical conflicts that won't go away -- Legislatures and the salary-mismatch syndrome.".
• catalog tableOfContents "8. The corruption obsession -- The big numbers that government can't bring down -- The costly medicine of corruption fighting -- The utter uselessness of 1990s-style corruption -- The unaccountable institution -- Is the age of entrapment coming to an end? -- 9. The follies of liberalism -- Newspaper crusades and dangerous illusions -- The temptation to hand out irrelevant entitlements -- The radical idea of neighborhood schools -- Lucky winners in the housing sweepstakes -- The intellectual regalia of thirty years ago -- 10. The mysteries of economics -- The most misleading question in government : "how much does it cost?" -- Will moral responsibility keep the local factory open? -- When politicians get that free-market religion -- The dangers of making sin scarce -- Why we're so hooked on credentialism.".
• catalog title "Democracy in the mirror : politics, reform, and reality in grassroots America / Alan Ehrenhalt.".
• catalog type "text".