Wilson, D. and Game, C., 2002, Local Government in the United
Kingdom, 3rd edn, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan
Excellent up-to-date text on UK local government experience.
Zimmerman, Joseph F., 1992, Contemporary American Federalism:
The Growth of National Power, Leicester, Leicester University Press
An overiew of the division of power amongst different levels of
government in the home of federalism.
Websites
http://www.cia.gov
CIA: Central Intelligence Agency includes up-to-date statistics in
the World Factbook (downloadable free).
http://new.prio.no/CSCW-Datasets/Data-on-Governance/The-
Polyarchy-dataset
Measures the extent of democracy, participation and competition
in 187 countries.
http://www.federalism.ch
Institute of Federalism, Fribourg, Switzerland includes working
papers and online federalism games.
http://www.europa.eu.int/index-en.htm
European Union.
http://www.uta.fi/valagos/links.html
Index of local government websites.
http://www.poole.gov.uk
Poole, Dorset’s local government website.
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