In the 1980s there was a marked increase in the number of hung local authorities or authorities in which there was no clear majority. This book describes the different patterns of hungness and the response of local authorities to the new situation.
Report of the Auditor-General on the Local Governments of the North West Province for 1998-99
In dieser Arbeit wird auf die von unterschiedlichen Wissenschaftlern und Gruppen favorisierten verschiedenen -Typen- und Konzepte von Nachhaltigkeit eingegangen, die zum Beispiel auch als Zukunftsfahigkeit oder dauerhaft-umweltgerechte Entwicklung bezeichnet werden. Hier werden diese unterschiedlichen Konzepte erlautert, ihre Wechselwirkungen an Beispielen verstandlich gemacht und zu einer Diskussion uber Mangel und Moglichkeiten einer Weiterentwicklung angeregt. Zentraler Ausgangspunkt aller Be...
For more than a century the Houston area has grown steadily and at times spectacularly. The lifeblood of the region's development has been the flow of credit; its heart, the banks that have pumped investment dollars through the economy, and particularly Texas Commerce Bank, one of the city's largest. From the chartering of Texas Commerce's first predecessor in 1886, the bank's ancestor institutions helped finance the growth of the region's lumber, cotton, and oil industries and played important...
Big City Politics in Transition (Studies in Crime, Law, and Justice, #38) (Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, #38)
This volume examines how government and administration in America's largest cities have changed between 1960 and 1990. Each chapter traces demographic and economic changes over this vital, and at times turbulent, thirty year period explaining what those changes mean for politics, policies and the general quality of life. Analytic and comparative chapters extract patterns and variations which emerge from the city profiles. Each profile addresses common issues in socio-economic, coalitional, insti...
Diagnosing Corruption in Ethiopia (Directions in Development. Public Sector Governance)
For decades, corruption in Ethiopia has only been discussed at the margins. Perhaps because many have not experienced corruption as a significant constraint to their lives and businesses, or perhaps because a culture of circumspection has dampened open dialogue, Ethiopia has neither seen the information flows nor the debate on corruption that most other countries have seen in recent years. This study attempts to fill this information gap. Conducted by the World Bank (with financial support from...
Over sixty years ago, political scientist V.O. Key Jr. published his seminal work, Southern Politics in State and Nation. Key's book redefined the field of southern politics and remains one of the most cited and influential works in twentieth-century political science and southern history. In Unlocking V.O. Key Jr., prominent southern scholars in history, political science, and southern and American studies reconsider Key's analysis, debating his omissions as well as highlighting the timeless el...
Zu den britischen Planungen fur ein Nachkriegsdeutschland gehorte der Aufbau demokratischer Selbstverwaltungen. In ihrer Besatzungszone begannen die Briten damit zunachst auf kommunaler Ebene, wo sie 1945/46 unter ihrer Aufsicht stehende Selbstverwaltungsgremien einsetzten. Die vorliegende Untersuchung behandelt den Verlauf dieses demokratischen Neubeginns in den Jahren 1947 bis 1950 anhand der Arbeit und Entwicklung der Ratsversammlung der Stadt Neumunster. Dabei wird dieser Prozess mit den ent...
Local Authority Services in Rural England (Rural Information S.)
by Rita Hale and Anna Capaldi
As legalized gambling continues its march across America, governors are in the curious position of managing enterprises that have long been the dominion of gangsters. Until the 1960s, legalized gambling in modern America was limited to Nevada and racetracks, but once governors got a taste of lottery revenue, it set off a stampede for more. Today, every state except for Hawaii and Utah has some form of legal gambling. Gangsters to Governors tells the stories of a constellation of remarkable pers...
In 1915 Governor James Ferguson began his term in Texas bolstered by a wave of voter enthusiasm and legislative cooperation so great that few Texans anticipated anything short of a successful administration. His campaign was based on two key elements: his appeal to the rural constituency and a temporary hiatus from the effects of the continuous Prohibition debate. In reality, Jim Ferguson had shrewdly sold a well-crafted image of himself to Texas voters, carrying into office a bevy of closely gu...
Term Limits in State Legislatures
by John M. Carey, Richard G. Niemi, and Lynda W. Powell
The studies in this work demonstrate that term limits had been less effect on state legislatures than proponents predicted. This book is based on a survey of nearly 3000 legislators from 50 states along with interviews with legislative leaders.'
Why does Alabama rank so low on many of the indicators of quality of life? Why did some of the most dramatic developments in the civil rights revolution of the 1960s take place in Alabama? Why is it that a few interest groups seem to have the most political power in Alabama? William H. Stewart's Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century explores these questions and more, illuminating many of the often misunderstood details of contemporary Alabama politics in this cohesive and comprehensive pu...
A recent wave of decentralization in Latin America has increased the prominence of politicians at the subnational level. Politics Beyond the Capital is the first book to place this trend in comparative historical perspective, examining past episodes of decentralization alongside contemporary ones to determine whether consistent causal factors are at play. At the center of the book is the rigorous testing of two key hypotheses that attribute decentralization to liberalizing changes in political r...
This biography of Ellis Arnall follows the life and political career of the former governor from his rural Georgia upbringing through his service as state representative, attorney general, and governor to his subsequent political exile. Arnall assumed the governorship of Georgia in 1943, becoming the youngest person in the United States ever elected to that position. In his single term (1943-1947) he initiated a series of remarkable reforms that elevated Georgia above its Tobacco Road image and...