Product Description: Examines the origins, spread, and effectiveness of the initiative. The initiative is the product of the populist movement, which in the late nineteenth century sought to increase voter control of what were viewed as unrepresentative state and local governments...read more

Product Description: In-depth study of the recall, the most important popular device allowing voters to remove unresponsive elected officials from office.The recall, or “election in reverse,” is meant to allow voters to remove an elected official from office prior to the completion of his/her term in office...read more

Product Description: Examines intergovernmental efforts within the United States to manage the nation’s water supply.Long taken for granted, water resources are rapidly becoming a contentious issue within American politics. Continuing population growth and rapid development, coupled with environmental events such as droughts, have led to increasing water shortages in sections of the nation...read more

Product Description: First in-depth examination of the various forms of interstate cooperation and their central role promoting a successful federal system of government in the United States. Cooperative interstate relations are essential for maintaining the economic and political union established by the United States Constitution...read more

Product Description: Analysis on a dual insurance regulation system and its effectiveness relevant to the current system of regulation.In Regulating the Business of Insurance in a Federal System, Joseph F. Zimmerman provides an up-to-date historical description and analysis of the regulation of the business of insurance in the United States...read more

This volume has been written specifically for students of the U.S. system of government, and for students interested in federalism in practice. Joseph F. Zimmerman traces the development if the U.S. federal system from 1789 to the present day by focussing in the shifting balance of power between the nation and the states. It introduces the important theories of federalism and explains how they can be used to understand the system as it was originally drawn up and as it operates now. All the important trends in national-state relations are examined, with particular attention being given to the preemption by the federal legislature and judiciary of the powers and authority of the states.The U.S. federal system has changed radically since its inception, and continues to increase in complexity. This lucid and accessible account links the system's current practices with its history and looks forward to the future of the most important federal system in operation today.

Looks at the New York constitution, provides an overview of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, and describes the relationship between federal, state, and local governments

Product Description: Congressional Preemption provides an in-depth account of the use of preemption powers by Congress to either partially or completely remove regulatory authority from state and local governments in a wide variety of fields. Author Joseph F...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive look at the economic relations among states, and how they might be better optimized.In this groundbreaking volume, Joseph F. Zimmerman examines interstate economic relations. He explores the history of congressional and judicial ground rules governing such relations, direct and indirect interstate trade barriers and means of their removal, and interstate competition for tax revenues, business firms, sports franchises, tourists, and gamblers...read more

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Product Description: Provides up-to-date information on both the scientific and clinical aspects of work in this area - diagnosis, progress and therapeutics, and the advances in cytogenetics and molecular biology. This book also covers the epidemiology, classification, genetic investigation, immunology, prognosis, treatment, and relationship between MDS and leukaemias...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this groundbreaking study, Zimmerman explores the town meeting form of government in all New England states. This comprehensive work relies heavily upon surveys of town officers and citizens, interviews, and mastery of the scattered writing on the subject...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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