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Michigan in Brief

Michigan in Brief: 2002–03, prepared and published by Public Sector Consultants, Inc., provides useful information about the state and an objective look at more than 40 public policy topics of current concern to Michigan residents and their elected representatives. The issues are treated in sufficient depth to be useful to the well-informed yet written plainly enough to be understood by nonexperts. Each has three parts: background information; discussion of proposed policy options, including a balanced, nonpartisan presentation of various viewpoints; and sources of additional information, including FAX numbers and Web sites where available. (E-mail is not included because personnel and addresses change too frequently.) Cross-references will lead the reader to related issues.

Chapters 1–3 of Michigan in Brief provide historical, general, and economic information about the state.

• About Michigan” presents the economic political history of the state, recounting events from 1600 to the present, as well as a profile of the state’s people and lifestyles and a list of facts about the state.
  
• About State Government" profiles the executive branch (including brief descriptions of the state departments), legislative branch (with a sketch of the lawmaking process), and judicial branch (with an explanation of the various courts’ jurisdictions) and also summarizes state government’s checks and balances.
  
• About the State Budget” outlines the process by which Michigan’s annual financial plan is determined.

Chapter 4 “About Michigan’s Nonprofit Sector” describes the organization, breadth, and contribution of this sector to the state’s people and economy.

For more information, or to order additional copies for $30 (plus shipping and handling), please contact Erin Skene, Director of Michigan Public Policy Initiative at 517/492-2400.

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