A most welcome challenge to the conventional wisdom that lawmakers are in bondage to the interest groups that fund their campaigns. -- Alan Rosenthal, Eagleton Institute, Rutgers University Theoretically sophisticated and empirically inventive. It represents a real contribution to the literature on the important point that 'ideas matter.' -- Steven Kelman, Weatherhead Professor of Public Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Edward L. Lascher Jr., an associate professor in the Graduate Program in Public Policy and Administration at California State University, Sacramento, is the coeditor of Ambition and Beyond: Career Paths of American Politicians.
This readable and wellreasoned study examines how Canadian provincial and U.S. state levels of government ... have tried in a variety of ways to lessen the extent of significantly increasing rates over the past 20 years. American Political Science Review
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