American Intergovernmental Relations, 4th Edition

With feedback from adopters, editor Laurence O’Toole retains important classic selections from earlier editions while freshening this volume with new selections that cover not only the impact of recent fiscal developments and international influences on U.S. intergovernmental relations, but also explore the key role of the Supreme Court in shaping the system’s ….
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Managing Local Government Services: A Practical Guide

This is the third edition of the previously published Managing Small Cities and Counties: A Practical Guide. As a comprehensive text on the subject of local government services, this revision is relevant to local governments of all sizes.
This edition is refocused and updated to include the demographic, economic, technology and [...]

Teachers and the Law, 7th Edition.

Focuses on legal issues reflecting current trends and decisions that are important to educators in the 21’st century. The authors designed the text for school professionals seeking an easy to use reference on every important area of school law, including student and employee rights, the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on those [...]

American Government Leaders: Major Elected And Appointed Officials, Federal, State And Local, 1776-2005

This book provides a single source of biographical information for the thousands of individuals who have held high elective and appointive offices in the United States federal, state, and municipal governments since independence in 1776. The first half of the book lists positions in the government with a chronological record of the individuals who have [...]

Sharing Water in Times of Scarcity: Guidelines and Procedures in the Development of Effective Agreements to Share Water Across Political Boundaries

When two or more independent governments share a common water resource, the timing and magnitude of the respective individual uses can be continual sources of conflict. Water scarcity is evident throughout much of the western United States and consequently water sharing between the states is expanding in scope. The growing use of shared water resources [...]

Electronic Records Management

Strategies and practices for local government. With electronic records come new challenges for records management: risks and liabilities associated with e-mail use, high risk of loss from technical threats, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters, short life expectancy of the hardware and software, higher demand for technical expertise, new concerns with employees who have the [...]

Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History

The most visited site in the National Parks system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to popular myth, the Parkway was a New Deal “godsend for the needy,” built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their uniform [...]

Managing Urban America, Sixth Edition

Morgan, England, and Pelissero offer a forward-looking account of the new urban management environment. In a comprehensive update, the authors have reorganized the book’s structure to better fit the challenges facing today’s cities, and make even greater use of systems theory as an analytic framework. Featuring discussions of the New Public Management model, the [...]

The Politics of Public Fund Investing

Until now, there has never been a book to help public fund managers direct fixed-income portfolios while simultaneously balancing politics, or the need to preserve principal, with economics, or the need to optimize income. The Politics of Public Fund Investing approaches public fund management from the lay perspective, providing much-needed guidance to modify Wall Street [...]

State Constitutions for the Twenty-First Century: The Politics of State Constitutional Reform

Through illuminating case studies of reform efforts in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, New York, and Virginia, this book—the first of three volumes—provides the first systematic analysis of the political obstacles to state constitutional reform. For those seeking constitutional reform, this useful resource can spell the difference between success and failure, and for those interested in [...]