Government and politics in Virginia
Subtitle: the Old Dominion at the 21st century
By: edited by Quentin Kidd ; with a foreword by Larry J. Sabato.
Contributors: Kidd, Quentin.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Custom Pub.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Needham Heights, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Virginia -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Virginia Constitution: continuity from 1776 to 1971 / Stanley Hash; title: Virginia's Governor: curator of the political museum piece / Laura Van Assendelft and Quentin Kidd; title: The general assembly: coping with change and tradition / Quentin Kidd and Connie Jorgensen; title: Virginia's judicial selection process: still unique though its partisan stripes are changing / John T. Whelan; title: Virginia bureaucracy: the corporate model applied to governmental administration / B. Douglas Skelley; title: Budgeting in Virginia: power, politics, and policy / John T. Whelan and Daniel J. Palazzolo; title: Forging 'debatable ground': the transformation of party politics in Virginia / Stephen K. Medvic; title: Issues, horse races, and candidate profiles: press coverage of gubernatorial campaigns / Lawrence L. Schack; title: Intergovernmental relations in Virginia: the Dillon rule in action / Stan Livengood; title: The Internet as a governmental and political resource / Alan J. Rosenblatt; title: Cutting taxes: good public policy or political expediency? / Patrick Lee Plaisance; title: The criminal justice system: providing public safety in Virginia / Tom Dempsey and David Coffey; title: Political ethics and reform in Virginia: marching to the beat of a different drummer / Robert N. Roberts; title: The environment as a public policy issue: assessing Virginia from a regional perspective / Glen Sussman; title: Virginia's foreign economic policy: in search of business opportunities / Tom Lansford and Wayne Lesperance; title: Appendix:  the Constitution of Virginia.