Synopsis
This text helps you experience the excitement and challenge of politics at the local level. In this innovative book, readers are cast in the role of city council and planning commission members responsible for managing Camelot, a medium-sized and socio-economically integrated city.
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Part I. 1. Local Government: Why Study It? 2. Who Governs, and to What Ends? 3. The Legal Authority of Cities: Constraints and Powers. 4. Sources of Local Government Revenues and Their Constraints. 5. Organized Interests in the Decision-Making Process. 6. Implementing Democracy. 7. Forms of Local Government. 8. Land-Use Planning, Planning Departments, and Planning Commissions. Part II. 9. Introduction to Simulation. 10. Starting the Simulation. 11. Issues. 12. Reference Materials. 13. Elections. 14. Role Descriptions, Settings, and Lists of Duties.
About the Author
James R. Forrester has been a faculty member of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at West Libery State College (West Virginia) since 1969. He received his Ph.D. in political science from West Virginia University in 1979. He is a member of the Bethany (West Virginia) Town Council and has been a presidential election consultant for WTOV ¿ Channel 0, Steubenville/Wheeling. His publications include GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN WEST VIRGINIA: READINGS, CASES AND COMMENTARIES, 5th edition, plus articles.
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