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State and Local Politics: Government by the People

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The latest edition of State and Local Government: Government By the People, exemplifies what is good-and bad-in most political science textbooks today. Its strengths include a clear writing style , and colorful graphs and illustrations. Every chapter is built around lucidly presented' learning objectives. Then what is wrong with this book?
Sadly, a lot. For one thing, it is much too short and abrupt for a 16 or 17 week course. However, this could be blessing in disguise, as it forces the instructor to be clever. I taught State and Local last year using an edition which had ten chapters. This gave me time to have three movie nights( All Thge Kings Men-1950 version, of course- City Hall and the Great McGinty. and bring in several outside speakers.
However, the latest version is even shorter ( 9 chapters, instead of ten.) Even worse,the omitted material consists of the chapter on, hold on to your hats, FEDERALISM. Leaving federalism out of a discussion of US politics is absurd. As I have remarked in another place, it is like leaving the Atonement out of a textbook on Christianity or the Four Noble Truths out of a discussion of Buddhism.With all due respect to Messrs. Magleby and Light, this is a well meaning but badly flawed textbook

State and Local Politics: Government by the People (13th Edition) (MySearchLab Series)

Required college read for my daughter. Very good source for knowledge on local politics...

I was very happy that this book arrived before the 2 days shipping was up. The books looks brand new and has no highlighting in it. I was very pleased with the pricing. This was a very positive experience.