State and local government in a federal system
By: Daniel R. Mandelker, Howard A. Stamper Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law; Judith Welch Wegner, Burton Craige Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law; Janice C. Griffith, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School; Kenneth Bond, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs (US), LLP, Adjunct Professor, Albany Law School; Christopher J. Tyson, Newman Trowbridge Distinquished Associate Professor, Paul Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University
Contributors: Wegner, Judith Welch, author; Griffith, Janice C., author; Bond, Kenneth W. (Lawyer) author; Tyson, Christopher J., author
Edition: Eighth edition.
Publisher: LexisNexis
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Providence, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 874
ISBN-13: 9781632808240; 9781632808264
Subjects: Federal government; State governments; Local government; Law and legislation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references an index.
Table of contents: title: An overview of state and local government in a federal system; title: Local government powers and state preemption; title: Alternate models for local government; title: State and local government finance; title: Serving the public sector : officers and employees; title: Governmental liability; title: Federalism; title: The state legislature; title: The role of the judiciary; title: The chief executive; title: Judicial relief and citizen control of governmental action.