Selected References

Alabama Arise.  2005, Alabama Tax & Budget Handbook  
      2004, Dec. 17.  Shell Game: Alabama’s General Fund 2001-05.  Montgomery, AL:        
      Arise Citizens’ Policy Project.

Alabama Department of Finance.  2005.  SMART Budgeting:  Planning With a 
      Purpose:Strategic Planning and Budget Request Instructions Fiscal Year 2005-2006.      
      [SMART Budgeting process at: www.governor.state.al.us.  Goals and objectives at
       www.smartbudgeting.state.al.us.]

Alabama Ethics Commission.   www.ethics.alalinc.net

Alabama Executive Budget Office.   The Budget Process. 
        www.budget.state.al.us/budproc.html		

Alabama Law Institute. Alabama Government Manual. 11th Ed.  2002.  
A guide to agencies of state government
      The Legislative Process: A Handbook for Alabama Legislators.  2003. Ed. Robert L. McCurley, Jr.	Provided for legislators’ orientation.  Available for purchase.

Alabama Legislature.  www.legislature.state.al.us
	Alabama Legislative Information Service (ALISON)
House.  2003. Rules (Including Joint Rules) of the Alabama House of Representatives,  
Senate.  2003.  Rules (Including Joint Rules) of the Senate of the State of Alabama.
	Legislative Glossary and Alabama Legislative Process, 2002.  McDowell Lee
   Publications available from Public Information Office, Alabama State Senate, Alabama State House:  
How a Bill Become Law in Alabama. No date.
	House and Senate Rules 
            House and Senate Directories

Brown, Jesse.  2002-2003.  Alabama’s Legislative Article: Content, Comparison, and 
Prescription.  Cumberland Law Review 33, 2: 575-596.

Center for Public Integrity.   www.public-i.org

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.  No date.  Budget Process and Development and 
Purposes of the Budget Transparency Scorecard.  Washington, DC:  Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Citizens Conference on State Legislatures.  1971.  The Sometime Governments:  A 
           Critical Study of the 50 American Legislatures.  New York: Bantam Books.		
Council of State Governments.  2002.  The Book of the States, 2004.  Lexington, KY. 
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Edwards, George C. III, Martin P. Wattenberg, and Robert L Lineberry, Government in 
America:  People, Politics, and Policy.  Brief 8th Ed.  New York: Pearson Longman, 2006. Chapter 10.

Hamm, Keith E. and Garry F. Moncrief.  2003.  Legislative Politics in the States.  In 
Virginia Gray and Russell L. Hanson, Eds.  Politics in the American States: A Comparative Analysis.  8th Ed.  Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, pp. 157-193.

Hird, John A.  2005.  Power, Knowledge and Politics: Policy Analysis in the States.  
Washington, DC:  Georgetown University Press.

Katz, Ellis. 1999. Local Self-Government in the United States. In Issues of Democracy.    
            Vol 4.No.1.  An Electronic Journal of the US Information Agency. Pp. 6-11.        
(http://usinfo.state.gov./journals)
	
National Conference of State Legislatures.  www.ncsl.org  
	2004  Full and Part-Time Legislatures	
2004  Legisbrief: Connecting Citizens with Legislators. Vol 12, No. 23
	2002  Legisbrief. Gift Restrictions—It’s not a Physics Lesson.  Vol 10, No. 29  	
2001.  The Case for Representative Democracy: What Americans Should Know 
About Their Legislatures.  Alan Rosenthal, Karl T. Kurtz. John Hibbing, and Burdett Loomis    www.ncsl.org/public/trust/casexesum.htm.
1998.	Legislative Budget Procedures: A Guide to Appropriations and Budget Processes in the States, Commonwealths and Territories.(Executive Summary available at:  
www.ncsl.org/programs/fiscal/lbp98sum.htm) 

Rosenthal, Alan. 1998.  The Decline of Representative Democracy:  Process, Participation and Power in State Legislatures.  Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press.

Rosenthal, Alan.  1995. The Legislature: Unraveling of Institutional Fabric.  In Carl E. 
Van Horn (Ed).  The State of the States.  3rd Ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press, pp 108-142.

Rosenthal. Alan and Rich Jones. 2005.  Trends in State Legislatures.  In The Book of the 
States, 2004.  Lexington, KY:  Council of State Governments, pp. 71-76.

Thomas, Clive S. and Robert Hrebenar. 2004. Interest Groups in the States.  In Virginia 
Gray and Russell L. Hanson, Eds.  Politics in the American States:  A 
Comparative Analysis.  8th Ed.  Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 
Pp113-143.