State and Local Government, 2011-2012 Edition
Kevin B. Smithis professor of political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author or coauthor ofGoverning States and Localities, 2nd Edition,The Ideology of Education, and numerous scholarly articles on state politics and policy. He is also a former associate editor ofState Politics & Policy Quarterly. Prior to becoming an academic he covered state and local politics as a newspaper reporter.