HIST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dream Act, Plurality Voting System, Constitutionalism
1 Mar 2018
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Disagreements are often fierce at the state and local levels over everything. State and local governments do more than provide public services such as education, highways, police. But it is even more important that government deal with racial tensions, school disputes, growth problems etc. Comparative study, which compares political institutions and behaviors from state to state and community to community in order to identify and explain similarities or differences. One example of state politics and public policy. Economic development is defined broadly to include three closely related components: population growth, income, and education. Population growth rates the percentage of population increase over the decade may be better indicators of the changing requirements of state governments to provide public services, as well as the changing politics in the states. Differences in the racial and ethnic composition of state populations account for much of the variation in the politics of states and cities throughout the nation.
