Rev. ed. of: State and local government in an urban society. 1st ed. 1986.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: The Development of the United States -- A Changing Federal system -- Parties, politics and interest groups in state and local government -- State legislatures and legislators -- The Executieve -- State judicial systems, judges and the problem of order -- Counties, special districts and regional organizations -- Municipal government -- Politics and power in communities -- The Delivery of public service -- School districts and the politics of public education -- Financing state and local governments -- Race, gender and state and local politics -- Economic development policy -- Public education: are the states turning it around?: -- Poverty policy: conflict and change -- Housing the homeless: state and local responses -- State and local responses to aids -- Wrapping it up.