General Interest
The Limited and Contrary Uses of County Charter Reform: Two California Cases
Alvin D. Sokolow
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Stakeholder Analysis of Civil Service Reform in Florida: A Descriptive, Instrumental, Normative Human Resource Management Perspective
Jonathan P. West and James S. Bowman
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Advancing Comparative State Policy Research: Toward Conceptual Integration and Methodological Expansion
Edward Alan Miller
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Research Notes
Examining Decreasing Rates of Voter Falloff in California and Oregon
Mathew Manweller
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The Hearing of Local Government Interests in State Legislatures: The Effects of Prior Service in City or County Government
Nicholas P. Lovrich and Meredith A. Newman
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General Interest
The Impact of State Government Fiscal Crises on Local Governments and Schools
Andrew Reschovsky
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Determinants of Conflict on Wisconsin Town Boards
Terri Johnson and Douglas M. Ihrke
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Bootstraps and Benevolence: A Comparative Test of States' Capacity to Effect Change in Welfare Outcomes
Renee J. Johnson, David M. Hedge, and Marian Currinder
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Perceptions of Supervisory, Middle Managerial, and Top Managerial Trust: The Role of Job Satisfaction in Organizational Leadership
Dennis M. Daley and Susan E. Pope
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Practitioner's Corner
The State of the States: A Review of State Requirements for Citizen Participation in the Local Government Budget Process
Maureen Berner and Sonya Smith
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General Interest
Citizen Participation in Local Politics: Evidence from New England Town Meetings
Victor S. DeSantis and David Hill
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Political Influence on Agency Rule Making: Examining the Effects of Legislative and Gubernatorial Rule Review Powers
Neal D. Woods
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Fast-Forward to a Participatory Norm: Agency Response to Pulbic Mobilization Over Oil and Gas Leasing in Pennsylvania
Michael Welsh
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Earthquake Entrepreneurs: Local Policy Systems and the Regulation of Public Risks in California
Robert S. Wood
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Emergency Management Growth in the State of Florida
Sang Ok Choi
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