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He is author of The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political Leader;coauthor, with Nelson W. Polsby, of Presidential Elections: Strategies of American Electoral Politics;and coeditor, with Robert T. Golembiewski, of The Costs of Federalism.The second and revised edition of his Budgeting: A Comparative Theory of Budgetary Processesis forthcoming from Transaction Books.
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Wildavsky, A. Federalism means inequality. Society 22, 42–49 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695380
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