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Examines the status and functions of county government and sets forth a case study of charter revision.

Table of Contents

Counties in the American Political System Issues in County Government: Revenue Limitations, Rural Counties and County Reform Toward the Next Millennium Appendix Bibliography Index

About the Author

FRANK J. COPPA is Associate Professor of History, Director of the Doctoral Program in Modern World History, and Chair of the Vatican Symposium at St. John's University. He has published over a dozen volumes on Papal and Italian History. Among his monographs are biographies of Giovanni Giolitti, Pope Pius IX, Camillo di Cavour and Cardinal Ciacomo Antonelli.