Abstract
For more than a decade, some students of American subnational government have been suggesting that key aspects of state and local political systems, such as the degree of interparty competition and the ostensible political orientation of the controlling party, have little power statistically speaking to account for observed diversities in the scope and direction of local government policy. However, other students of American state and local government have found political variables to be of major importance in shaping policy and have argued that the weakness of political variables has not yet been properly demonstrated.2
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