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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hicks, William D.
• Newmark, Adam J.

Titel

Comparing Introductory State and Local Government Textbooks

Ist Teil von

• PS, political science & politics, 2017-04, Vol.50 (2), p.542-548

Ort / Verlag

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We review several textbooks, with the goal of providing a brief overview of the options available to scholars teaching undergraduate state and local government courses. This review provides a rudimentary comparison of these texts for both those looking for new texts and those who just want to explore potential options. Our examination is limited to general introductory, state and local texts, and omits texts that focus on a single state, as well as edited volumes like Politics in the American States (Gray, Hanson, and Kousser 2013). We note texts that have brief editions, though we do not evaluate these versions the way we do for the full versions. We do not rank the best and worst texts, but provide several criteria by which prospective adopters might base their decision. We leave subjective assessments to readers.