This guide to negotiations and impasse resolution in the public sector proceeds from a general examination of the legal and strategic contexts of collective bargaining. This leads to a discussion of labor law, contract negotiations, impasse creation, negotiation strategies and tactics, and relevant economic and behavioral issues. The authors examine the steps typically found in statutory impasse resolution procedures, mediation techniques and the situations in which they prove successful, the procedures used in fact-finding and interest-arbitration hearings, and the differing decisional standards employed by arbitrators and fact-finders in cases involving economic and language issues. Other topics include: factors affecting impasse resolution, and the effects of impasse resolution on labor relations. ISBN 0-89930-247-5: $42.95.