STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
VOL. 31, NO. 1, WINTER 1999
Contents
6 New Members of State and Local Government Review
Board of Editors
General Interest
7 Governors' Job Performance Ratings and State
Unemployment: The Case of California
Susan B. Hansen
18 Assessing the Performance of Municipal Police
Services Using Data Envelopment Analysis:
An Exploratory Study
Ronald C. Nyhan and Lawrence L. Martin
31 Agency Strategies and Determinants of Agency
Success under Redirection in Georgia
James W. Douglas
43 The Effects of State Abortion Policies
on States' Abortion Rates
Anita Pritchard and Sharon Kay Parsons
53 Governors, Bureaus, and State PoUcymaking
Charles Barrilleaux
_______________________________________
STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
VOL. 31 , NO. 2 , 1999
REVIEW
78 Connecting State Government Reform with
Public Priorities: The Iowa Test Case
Julie Bundt and Gene M. Lutx
91 Comment: Taking a Second Look:
Public Priorities, the NPM, and the Iowa Test Case
Robert F, Durant
95 Reply: Putting the "Public" Back in
Public Management
Julie Bundt and Gene M. Lutz
97 Economic Development Consequences of
State Support for Higher Education
Ruth Storm and Richard C. Feiock
106 Texas and the International Economy
John Barkdull and John P. Tuman
123 Getting to the Top:
Factors Influencing the Selection of Women to
Positions of Leadership in State Legislatures
Rebecca E. Deen and Thomas H. Little
135 Attitudes toward Economic Development
and the Environment: A Comparison of
Two West Texas Cities
Mark Somma, Scott Nikolai, and Tracy Skopek
147 Early Voting and the Timing of the Vote:
Unanticipated Consequences of Electoral Reform
William Lyons and John M. Scheb II