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• 2004029190 alternative "Governing.".
• 2004029190 contributor B9840105.
• 2004029190 created "c2005.".
• 2004029190 date "2005".
• 2004029190 date "c2005.".
• 2004029190 dateCopyrighted "c2005.".
• 2004029190 description "Are city councils a relic of the past? : one of America's oldest political institutions isn't adapting very well to 21st-century urban life / Rob Gurwitt -- Anatomy of a merger : greater Louisville is about to be born. how much greater will it be? / Alan Greenblatt -- In search of the ideal legislature : a new look at how state legislatures have changed / Alan Ehrenhalt -- The phantom of New York : quasi-governmental authorities spend billions of dollars of Empire State taxpayers' money every year. They don't have to answer many questions about it / Christopher Swope -- The great GASB : states and localities now have to account for the real value of everything from city halls to drainage systems / Michele Mariani -- Insufficient funds : half of the states are embroiled in lawsuits charging that school spending is inadequate. How much money is enough-and where will it come from? / Dennis Farney -- The well that dried up : Pittsburgh has weathered some tough economic times and there are encouraging signs. If only the government weren't broke / Anya Sostek -- Risky ventures : private investors are pushing a complex venture-capital scheme that involves big risks and uncertain rewards for states / Christopher Swope -- Worth the money? : the competition for top talent is producing a cadre of highly paid public executives / Jonathan Walters -- Going outside : the push to privatize is expanding beyond service delivery into the areas of policy making and program design / Jonathan Walters -- Payout planning : as older workers retire, state pension funds are finding they've made more promises than they can keep / Christopher Swope -- Service tsunami : Florida's radical overhaul of its personnel system is making big political waves / Jonathan Walters -- The dot-bomb's silver lining : in the wake of the tech sector's tumble, governments are finding it easier to fill IT positions / Ellen Perlman -- Legislators who get IT : politicians hold the purse strings for big technology projects. but few are interested in or informed about IT issues / Ellen Perlman -- Dealing in data : forget about building a big all-purpose database. There are other ways to tap into and use integrated information / Ellen Perlman -- Honey, I shrunk the deficit! : computer games offer citizens the chance to see how government works and the trade-offs involved in policy making / Christopher Conte -- Trading for clean water : states and localities are intrigued by proposals to create market mechanisms for solving intractable water-pollution problems / Tom Arrandale -- The e-mail mess : a new federal law is riding roughshod over tough state efforts to stop unwanted--and often indecent--spam / Ellen Perlman -- Who's afraid of the DMV? : for most people, motor vehicle offices are the face of government. It's not a pretty face / Jonathan Walters -- Unscrambling the city : archaic zoning laws lock cities into growth patterns that hardly anybody wants. Changing the rules can help set them free / Christopher Swope -- Murder mystery : in the 1990s, New York and Boston achieved dramatic decreases in homicide. One of them is still improving. The other is getting worse again. Why? / John Buntin -- Revising sentences : state budget problems have sparked pragmatic, bipartisan debates about alternatives to incarceration / Christopher Swope -- Deadly strains : sars, West Nile virus and bioterrorism are the big scares. But the greater threat is the gradual erosion of public health services / Christopher Conte -- Maine's medical gamble : can broader insurance coverage bring health care costs under control? One state is betting on it / Penelope Lemov -- The left behind syndrome : the federal government is telling school systems exactly what they must accomplish. It isn't doing much to help them accomplish it / Alan Greenblatt -- Edge-ucation : what compels communities to build schools in the middle of nowhere? / Rob Gurwitt -- Politics and promises : rhetoric meets the reality of a slowdown in Homeland Security funding / Christopher Logan -- Breaking and entering : protecting government networks against terrorists requires being relentlessly vigilant / Ellen Perlman -- Enemies of the State : state-versus-local tension is getting worse. Locals fear state budgets will be balanced at their expense. They may be right / Alan Greenblatt -- Made in Sacramento : California is using its clout to fill what officials there view as a national policy void on key issues. Is the state overstepping its boundaries? / Christopher Swope -- Squeezing the federal turnip : this isn't the easiest time for localities to get money out of Washington. but they aren't about to quit asking / Alan Greenblatt -- HUD the unlovable : the federal housing agency changes its focus every couple of years. The only constant is local frustration / Christopher Swope -- The avengers general : state AGs have accumulated an enormous amount of power. Too much, some people think / Alan Greenblatt -- That clean-all-over feeling : Maine's reformers believe they are washing the special interest money out of state politics. But critics say they are just laundering it / Alan Greenblatt -- Addicted to corruption : San Bernardino has been crooked for years. It will take years to clean it up / William Fulton and Paul Shigley -- The soft-money crackdown : there's a lot that state political parties still don't know about the new campaign finance law. They need to learn fast / Alan Greenblatt -- Sugar daddy government : a new generation of billionaires is remaking American cities. The cities are better off; the democratic process sometimes suffers / John Buntin -- How to win friends and repair a city : Atlanta needs all the help it can get. Luckily, it has a mayor who knows where to get / Rob Gurwitt -- Capital gains : the District of Columbia, once the nation's poster child for managerial incompetence, is staging a comeback / Jonathan Walters -- Huge turnover in hard times : a bumper crop of new state leaders will move in next January. Some may soon wonder why they wanted the job / Alan Greenblatt.".
• 2004029190 extent "xiii, 194 p. :".
• 2004029190 identifier "1568029950 (alk. paper)".
• 2004029190 identifier 2004029190.html.
• 2004029190 issued "2005".
• 2004029190 issued "c2005.".
• 2004029190 language "eng".
• 2004029190 publisher "Washington, D.C. : CQ Press,".
• 2004029190 spatial "United States.".
• 2004029190 subject "351.73 22".
• 2004029190 subject "Federal government United States.".
• 2004029190 subject "JK2443 .G68 2005".
• 2004029190 subject "Local government United States.".
• 2004029190 subject "State governments United States.".
• 2004029190 tableOfContents "Are city councils a relic of the past? : one of America's oldest political institutions isn't adapting very well to 21st-century urban life / Rob Gurwitt -- Anatomy of a merger : greater Louisville is about to be born. how much greater will it be? / Alan Greenblatt -- In search of the ideal legislature : a new look at how state legislatures have changed / Alan Ehrenhalt -- The phantom of New York : quasi-governmental authorities spend billions of dollars of Empire State taxpayers' money every year. They don't have to answer many questions about it / Christopher Swope -- The great GASB : states and localities now have to account for the real value of everything from city halls to drainage systems / Michele Mariani -- Insufficient funds : half of the states are embroiled in lawsuits charging that school spending is inadequate. How much money is enough-and where will it come from? / Dennis Farney -- The well that dried up : Pittsburgh has weathered some tough economic times and there are encouraging signs. If only the government weren't broke / Anya Sostek -- Risky ventures : private investors are pushing a complex venture-capital scheme that involves big risks and uncertain rewards for states / Christopher Swope -- Worth the money? : the competition for top talent is producing a cadre of highly paid public executives / Jonathan Walters -- Going outside : the push to privatize is expanding beyond service delivery into the areas of policy making and program design / Jonathan Walters -- Payout planning : as older workers retire, state pension funds are finding they've made more promises than they can keep / Christopher Swope -- Service tsunami : Florida's radical overhaul of its personnel system is making big political waves / Jonathan Walters -- The dot-bomb's silver lining : in the wake of the tech sector's tumble, governments are finding it easier to fill IT positions / Ellen Perlman -- Legislators who get IT : politicians hold the purse strings for big technology projects. but few are interested in or informed about IT issues / Ellen Perlman -- Dealing in data : forget about building a big all-purpose database. There are other ways to tap into and use integrated information / Ellen Perlman -- Honey, I shrunk the deficit! : computer games offer citizens the chance to see how government works and the trade-offs involved in policy making / Christopher Conte -- Trading for clean water : states and localities are intrigued by proposals to create market mechanisms for solving intractable water-pollution problems / Tom Arrandale -- The e-mail mess : a new federal law is riding roughshod over tough state efforts to stop unwanted--and often indecent--spam / Ellen Perlman -- Who's afraid of the DMV? : for most people, motor vehicle offices are the face of government. It's not a pretty face / Jonathan Walters -- Unscrambling the city : archaic zoning laws lock cities into growth patterns that hardly anybody wants. Changing the rules can help set them free / Christopher Swope -- Murder mystery : in the 1990s, New York and Boston achieved dramatic decreases in homicide. One of them is still improving. The other is getting worse again. Why? / John Buntin -- Revising sentences : state budget problems have sparked pragmatic, bipartisan debates about alternatives to incarceration / Christopher Swope -- Deadly strains : sars, West Nile virus and bioterrorism are the big scares. But the greater threat is the gradual erosion of public health services / Christopher Conte -- Maine's medical gamble : can broader insurance coverage bring health care costs under control? One state is betting on it / Penelope Lemov -- The left behind syndrome : the federal government is telling school systems exactly what they must accomplish. It isn't doing much to help them accomplish it / Alan Greenblatt -- Edge-ucation : what compels communities to build schools in the middle of nowhere? / Rob Gurwitt -- Politics and promises : rhetoric meets the reality of a slowdown in Homeland Security funding / Christopher Logan -- Breaking and entering : protecting government networks against terrorists requires being relentlessly vigilant / Ellen Perlman -- Enemies of the State : state-versus-local tension is getting worse. Locals fear state budgets will be balanced at their expense. They may be right / Alan Greenblatt -- Made in Sacramento : California is using its clout to fill what officials there view as a national policy void on key issues. Is the state overstepping its boundaries? / Christopher Swope -- Squeezing the federal turnip : this isn't the easiest time for localities to get money out of Washington. but they aren't about to quit asking / Alan Greenblatt -- HUD the unlovable : the federal housing agency changes its focus every couple of years. The only constant is local frustration / Christopher Swope -- The avengers general : state AGs have accumulated an enormous amount of power. Too much, some people think / Alan Greenblatt -- That clean-all-over feeling : Maine's reformers believe they are washing the special interest money out of state politics. But critics say they are just laundering it / Alan Greenblatt -- Addicted to corruption : San Bernardino has been crooked for years. It will take years to clean it up / William Fulton and Paul Shigley -- The soft-money crackdown : there's a lot that state political parties still don't know about the new campaign finance law. They need to learn fast / Alan Greenblatt -- Sugar daddy government : a new generation of billionaires is remaking American cities. The cities are better off; the democratic process sometimes suffers / John Buntin -- How to win friends and repair a city : Atlanta needs all the help it can get. Luckily, it has a mayor who knows where to get / Rob Gurwitt -- Capital gains : the District of Columbia, once the nation's poster child for managerial incompetence, is staging a comeback / Jonathan Walters -- Huge turnover in hard times : a bumper crop of new state leaders will move in next January. Some may soon wonder why they wanted the job / Alan Greenblatt.".
• 2004029190 title "Governing : issues and applications from the front lines of government / edited by Alan Ehrenhalt.".
• 2004029190 type "text".