the demand for union power to 22,000 court workers. Obviously, to the people who are able to feed themselves with the welfare aid, this is a fair compromise, while the court workers may have a different opinion. The state will be giving up responsibility for some local court costs, and this change will shift greater economic responsibility to local government. Balancing the demands of opposing forces is clearly a crucial part of the job of public administrators. This struggle is even greater in an era such as ours which stresses economic belt-tightening.
Governors play a major symbolic role, helping to set the political agenda and to focus the attention of other political and administrative actors on a limited number of special topics. In addition, most governors have accumulated special powers with respect to the budget process through which they are able to dramatically affect the allocation of state res
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