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9781488544774 | Emerge Pub Group Llc, April 25, 2014, cover price $31.48
In this second edition of STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: INSTITUTIONS AND REFORM, Donovan, Mooney, and Smith go beyond the purely descriptive treatment usually found in state and local texts. First, the book offers an engaging comparative approach, showing students how politics and government differ between states and communities, and pointing out the causes and effects of those variations. Second, it focuses on what social scientists know about the effects of rules and institutions on politics and policy. This comparative, institutional framework enables students to think more analytically about the impact of institutions on policy outcomes, asks them to evaluate the effectiveness of one institutional approach over another, and encourages them to consider more sophisticated solutions. STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: INSTITUTIONS AND REFORM is the only text of its kind to dedicate three full chapters to direct democracy, land use policy, and morality politics. Throughout the text, boxed features elaborate on the themes of institutions, comparison, and reform, providing thought-provoking, concrete examples of the issues at state and local levels so that students can understand how institutions and systems effect individuals. New "You Decide" boxes and Discussion Questions at the end of each chapter ask students to apply critical thinking to the subject at hand. In addition, vivid tables, maps, graphs, and photographs provide the visual tools that students need to process detailed comparative data about the states. Written by three young, high-profile specialists who have contributed significantly to the field in the last decade, STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: INSTITUTIONS AND REFORM, Second Edition, incorporates into the course the most recent scholarship available, giving students access to perspectives that no other textbook on the market currently provides.
Hardcover:
9781285441405 | 4th edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1, 2014), cover price $211.95
9781111833107 | 3 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 31, 2012), cover price $211.95
9780495802235 | 2 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1, 2010), cover price $233.95 | About this edition: In this second edition of STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: INSTITUTIONS AND REFORM, Donovan, Mooney, and Smith go beyond the purely descriptive treatment usually found in state and local texts.
9780495090441 | 1 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 4, 2008), cover price $168.95
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9780199695409 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 19, 2013, cover price $99.00
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9781439082423, titled "The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking" | 10th edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, February 12, 2010), cover price $95.95 | also contains The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking
9780312096434 | 6th edition (Bedford/st Martins, November 1, 1994), cover price $19.95 | also contains Festival de genialidades (mas o menos) / Everything's Amazing (Sort of)
Hardcover:
9780739167618 | Lexington Books, December 22, 2011, cover price $90.00
In STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: Institutions & Reform: THE ESSENTIALS--a concise version of their acclaimed new text--Donovan, Mooney, and Smith intrigue students by going beyond the purely descriptive treatment usually found in state and local texts. STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: THE ESSENTIALS offers an engaging comparative approach, showing students how politics and government differ between states and communities, as well as the causes and effects of those variations, all within a manageable 10 chapters. An abbreviated, cost-effective text, STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: THE ESSENTIALS covers the core concepts that students need for a solid understanding of state and local government. Written by three young, high-profile specialists who have contributed significantly to the field in the last decade, STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: THE ESSENTIALS incorporates the most recent scholarship available, giving students access to perspectives that no other textbook on the market currently provides. In addition, the text goes above and beyond the traditional approach by focusing on what social scientists know about the effects of rules and institutions on politics and policy. This comparative, institutional framework enables students to think more analytically about the impact of institutions on policy outcomes, asks them to evaluate the effectiveness of one institutional approach over another, and encourages them to consider more sophisticated solutions.
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9780495908104, titled "State & Local Politics: Institutions & Reform: The Essentials" | 2 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 18, 2011), cover price $131.95
9780495567899 | 1 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 30, 2009), cover price $138.95 | About this edition: In STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: Institutions & Reform: THE ESSENTIALS--a concise version of their acclaimed new text--Donovan, Mooney, and Smith intrigue students by going beyond the purely descriptive treatment usually found in state and local texts.
Product Description: If Barack Obama had not won in Iowa, most commentators believe that he would not have been able to go on to capture the Democratic nomination for president. Why Iowa? offers the definitive account of those early weeks of the campaign season: from how the Iowa caucuses work and what motivates the candidates’ campaigns, to participation and turnout, as well as the lingering effects that the campaigning had on Iowa voters...read more
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9780226706955 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 15, 2010, cover price $98.00 | About this edition: If Barack Obama had not won in Iowa, most commentators believe that he would not have been able to go on to capture the Democratic nomination for president.
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9780226706962 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 15, 2010, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: If Barack Obama had not won in Iowa, most commentators believe that he would not have been able to go on to capture the Democratic nomination for president.
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9781133607670 | 11 pap/psc edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1, 2013), cover price $86.95
9781439082423 | 10th edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, February 12, 2010), cover price $95.95 | also contains Elements of Social Scientific Thinking
9780495015857 | 9 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, May 4, 2007), cover price $91.95
9780534614119 | 8 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, July 1, 2003), cover price $62.95
9780312208622 | Wadsworth Pub Co, November 1, 2000, cover price $26.95 | also contains Collateral Damage
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9780199276387 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 7, 2005, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: 'Based on data from democracies across the globe, this book examines how election losers and their supporters respond to their loss and how institutions shape losing'--Provided by publisher.
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9780199232000 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 29, 2007, cover price $51.00
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9780130994554 | Prentice Hall, August 1, 2003, cover price $56.80
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9780814209172 | Ohio State Univ Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $50.95
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9780814290002 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, February 1, 2003), cover price $14.95
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9780472109425 | Univ of Michigan Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $80.00
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9780472087150 | Univ of Michigan Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $30.95
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9780814207772 | Ohio State Univ Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $55.95
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9780814207789 | Ohio State Univ Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $29.95
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