POS 3070 State and Local Government
It was Tip O'Neil, Speaker of the House of Representatives, who after a lifetime of public life noted that "all politics is local." With New York serving as a backdrop, the course will probe the network of local ties - formal and informal -which bind political actors and communities together. It will consider the financing and function of state, county, and municipal governments. It will review polling and survey techniques and how they can be used in the study of state and local government.