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In this Third Edition of STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: INSTITUTIONS AND
REFORM, Donovan, Mooney, and Smith go beyond the purely descriptive
treatment usually found in state and local texts. Offering an
engaging comparative approach, the Third Edition shows students how
politics and government differ between states and communities, and
points out the causes and effects of those variations. The text
also focuses on what social scientists know about the effects of
rules and institutions on politics and policy. This comparative,
institutional framework enables students to think more analytically
about the impact of institutions on policy outcomes, asks them to
evaluate the effectiveness of one institutional approach over
another, and encourages them to consider more sophisticated
solutions. Written by three young, high-profile specialists who
have contributed significantly to the field in the last decade,
STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS: INSTITUTIONS AND REFORM incorporates the
most recent scholarship available into the course, giving students
access to perspectives that no other textbook on the market
currently provides.
In 1893, young army officer Cecil Hambrough was murdered at the
sprawling Ardlamont estate in Scotland, unleashing one of the most
gripping court cases Victorian Britain had ever known. Even more
remarkably, the case brought together two pioneering forensic
experts – Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn – two men upon whom
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes happened to be based. It is
their involvement in the Ardlamont affair that reveals how the
world’s most famous detective came to be: the worlds of crime
fiction and crime fact were about to collide spectacularly. In this
extraordinary book, Daniel Smith outlines the key roles of the two
men whose powers of deduction had so inspired Doyle and explores
the real-world origins of Sherlock Holmes through the prism of a
mystery as engrossing as any case the Great Detective ever tackled.
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