Governing States and Localities: The Essentials

About Alan H. GreenblattKevin B. Smith

Kevin B. Smith is the Leland J. and Dorothy H. Olson Chair of Political Science at the University of NebraskaLincoln. He is the author or coauthor of 10 books on politics and policy as well as numerous scholarly articles on state politics and policy. Prior to becoming an academic he covered state and local politics as a newspaper reporter. You can follow him on Twitter at @ nivek_htims. Alan Greenblatt is a reporter at Governing magazine and has been writing about politics and government in Washington D.C. and the states for more than two decades. As a reporter for Congressional Quarterly he won the National Press Clubs Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism. At Governing he has covered numerous issues of concern to state and local governments such as budgets taxes and higher education. Along the way he has written about politics and culture for many other outlets including NPR the New York Times and the Washington Post. Hes on Twitter at @AlanGreenblatt.