General Interest
Municipal Reform in Mayor-Council Cities: A Well-Kept Secret
H. George Frederickson, Brett Logan, and Curtis Wood
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Local Government Autonomy and Fiscal Stress: The Case of California Counties
Jeffrey I. Chapman
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The Effect of Term Limits on Corporate PAC Allocation Patterns: The More Things Change...
Stacy B. Gordon and Cynthia L. Unmack
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Public Management in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region: Toward Increased Cooperation between Texas and Mexican Officials?
John P. Tuman and Grant W. Neeley
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Usefully Engaging Local Budget Analysts during Budget Execution
Charles K. Coe
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Practitioner's Corner
The Anatomy of an Amalgamation: The Case of Ottawa
Raymond A. Rosenfeld and Laura A. Reese
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General Interest
County Government Structure and County Revenue Policy: What's the Connection?
J. Edwin Benton
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Revolving Funds as Budgeting Tools: An Examination of Oklahoma State Agencies
Aimee L. Franklin and James W. Douglas
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Citizen Groups in Big City Politics
Christopher A. Cooper and Anthony J. Nownes
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Bans on Executing the Mentally Retarded: An Event History Analysis of State Policy Adoption
Craig F. Emmert and Carol Ann Traut
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Practitioner's Corner
How Metropolitan Planning Organizations Incorporate Land-Use Issues in Regional Transportation Planning
James F. Wolf and Margaret Fenwick
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Long-Range Planning, Operations Research, and Politics: The Case of the Commission for the Future of Justice and the Courts in North Carolina
Michael L. Vasu, Raymond G. Taylor, and James R. Brunet
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General Interest
Governmental Uncertainty and Leadership Turnover: Influences on Contracting and Sector Choice for Local Services
James C. Clingermayer, Richard C. Feiock, and Christopher Stream
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Perceptions of Performance Measurement and the Practice of Performance Reporting by Small Cities
Alfred Ho
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The Impact of Issue Voting on a Local Nonpartisan Election
Jon Taylor and William D. Schreckhise
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Effect of Term Limits on the Election of Minority State Legislators
Stanley M. Caress, Charles Elder, Richard Elling, Jean-Philippe Faletta, Shannon K. Orr, Eric Rader, Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson, John Strate, and Lyke Thompson
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Research Note
Management Innovation in Smaller Municipal Government
William C. Rivenbark and Janet M. Kelly
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Practitioner's Corner
Measuring Customer Service: Georgia's Local Government Mystery Shopper Program
Mark D. Bradbury and Richard L. Milford
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