"The trusted and proven Governing States and Localities guides students through the contentious state of state and local politics and focuses on the role that economic and budget pressures play on issues facing them. With their engaging journalistic writing and crisp storytelling, the authors provide a comparative approach to explain how and why states and localities are both similar and different. The Ninth Edition is thoroughly updated to account for such major state and local developments and conflicts and the impact of the Donald Trump presidency on intergovernmental relations and issues of central interest to states and localities"--