New York State Government: Second Edition - Rockefeller Institute Press | Political Science Textbook & Reference for Students & Researchers

If every New Yorker read this book, an angry mob might descend upon Albany armed with pitch forks and torches.The first thing you will notice about this book is THE SIZE. It is enormous. Why on earth do we need a book so large to explain how the state government works? Well, it's because the state government doesn't really work that well and the author painstakingly goes through all agencies and countless processes to help the reader fully grasp the extent of the state's tangled web.Ward accomplishes the near impossible in this book by breaking the state government into digestible chunks. He explains the budget process and who really has the power. He explains how entitlements work. And he fills the 600+ pages with such straight forward reportage, that you don't sense a political bias in the writing.If you want to know how the State of New York operates, this book in indispensable. I truly hope Mr. Ward focuses his next work on the Beltway.