This is the first book to assess the prospects and challenges of the environmental justice movement, which contends that low-income persons and communities of color bear a disproportionate burden of toxic waste sites, hazardous jobs, and polluted air and water. ...

Paul Teske provides the foundation necessary to assess competing claims about state regulation. His book provides empirical analysis across all 50 states in ten important areas of industry, including utilities, telecommunications, the environment, health care certification, legal services and bank solvency. He finds that fears of regulatory capture by industry are overblown, as are concerns that a "race to the bottom" will necessarily result ...

Cities must meet the needs of thousands. This guide describes how federal and state law affects cities, and presents specific, practical actions to increase individual opportunity, while balancing the economy and environment. A must-read for any student of metropolitan America. ...

A volume in the SUNY series in American Constitutionalism Robert J. Spitzer, editor ...

A volume in the SUNY series in American Constitutionalism Robert J. Spitzer, editor ...

In the late nineteenth century, a new era began in American urban history, characterized by an explosion of both the populations and the proportions of cities, obliterating their traditional social and physical characteristics. Commercial businesses relocated, slums emerged around the core, and new residential areas were established along the periphery. The period was one of extreme disorder -- labor and ethnic unrest, election violence, rising ...

In the late nineteenth century, a new era began in American urban history, characterized by an explosion of both the populations and the proportions of cities, obliterating their traditional social and physical characteristics. Commercial businesses relocated, slums emerged around the core, and new residential areas were established along the periphery. The period was one of extreme disorder -- labor and ethnic unrest, election violence, rising ...

<P>Working from a broadened historical perspective, and employing political and economic analysis, Paul Brace places the states and their economies in a more understandable light.</P><P>"A major work on what has been, until now, an understudied topic among political scientists."--James C. Garand, Editor, American Politics Quarterly.</P><P>"Perhaps the definitive work on state ...

Arranged by state, this volume contains the elected officials from all three branches of state government, including the offices of governor, lt. governor, secretary of state, attorney general, treasurer, auditor, supreme court justice, as well as every state legislator.
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A national map of legalized gambling from 1963 would show one state, Nevada, with casino gambling, and no states with lotteries. Today's map shows eleven commercial casino states, most of them along the Mississippi River, forty-two states with state-owned lotteries, and racetrack betting, slot-machine parlors, charitable bingo, and Native American gambling halls flourishing throughout the nation. For the past twenty years, the South has wrestled ...