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Includes many new case studies (called Policy and Practice Boxes). The data and scholarship has been thoroughly revised throughout. Major revisions to Chapter 8 include new sections on Authentic Leadership and the Lean Six Sigma management model.
Chapter 2: Cities and the System of Intergovernmental Relations
Cities and the System of Intergovernmental Relations
Managing the modern city is no easy task. As noted in Chapter 1, city officials are required to respond to a host of factors when making local policies. In fact, the assumption underlying systems theory is that government policies are a response to forces generated in the environment. Prominent among these environmental factors is federalism.
Federalism is as old as the Republic itself. The Framers were intent on creating a system of government in which the national government shared powers with state governments. Many at the Constitutional Convention would have it no other way. A strong federal government threatened the very rights and liberties the revolutionary Continental Army had just ...
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