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Alan J. Karcher takes a critical look at how and why the boundary lines of New Jersey's 566 municipalities were drawn, pointing to the irrationality of these excessive divisions.
Now issued as an annual paperback and in EPub format, New Jersey Local Government Deskbook is published in cooperation with the New Jersey State League of Municipalities. This plain-language handbook organizes and updates a towns procedural and regulatory obligations.
This fourth edition is thoroughly updated to reflect the challenges New Jersey has overcome and those it continues to face: sustaining growth and opportunity in a multicultural society, providing quality education, and protecting the environment. State politics and government have been almost entirely reshaped in recent decades, and those changes are analyzed in every chapter of this edition. Offering a comprehensive overview of New Jersey politics and government, chapters cover the state’s political history; campaigns and elections; interest groups; the constitution; the development of government institutions; relationships with neighboring states, the federal government, and its own municipalities and counties; tax and spending policies; education; and quality of life issues.
Discussing such issues as the development of a more activist posture within the state government and the response of the New Jersey polity to growing suburbanization, Barbara G. Salmore and Stephen A. Salmore present the only comprehensive overview of politics and government in New Jersey. This second edition includes a new chapter on the political changes in New Jersey since the book?s original publication in 1993.
This book is designed to introduce the reader to the government and political life of the State of New Jersey. The focus is on the major institutions of state government-the legislature, the executive, and judiciary-and the way they are organized and the services each performs. The authors pay special attention to the myriad of limited-purpose local and regional governments: school districts, fire districts, water districts, etc. Contents: The Land, The People, The Economy; The Constitution; The Legislature; Political Participation: Voting, Parties, Interest Groups; The Executive; The Judiciary; Public Finance; Local Government; Bibliography; Index.