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This popular text mixes the best classic theory and research on urban politics with the most recent developments in urban and metropolitan affairs. Its very balanced and realistic approach helps students to understand the nature of urban politics and the difficulty of finding effective solutions in a suburban and global age. The eighth edition provides a comprehensive review and analysis of urban policy under the Obama administration and brand new coverage of sustainable urban development. A new chapter on globalization and its impact on cities brings the history of urban development up to date.

In the 1990s, narrow majorities on the Supreme Court have reinvigorated constitutional federalism by strengthening dual sovereignty and developing a new jurisprudence for analyzing key principles of federalism. The new dual sovereignty enhances the Reserve Clause, limits Congress's Commerce Clause powers, and broadens the 11th Amendment's sovereign immunity. The new jurisprudence promotes policy and administrative diversity among the states, thereby enhancing their ability to serve as laboratories for the development of public management theories and practices. The new reality of enforceable constitutional limits to national power can invigorate discourse about federalism within the public administration community. In practice, the new jurisprudence makes some national cooperative federalism arrangements more costly or impossible. The jurisprudence is conceptualized as federalism, not intergovernmental relations, and it does not speak specifically to local governmental matters. In addition, it is not well suited for analyzing and resolving collective action problems.