Texas Politics

Author : George Norris Green
Publisher : Editorial Galaxia
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0806118911

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The Establishment in Texas Politics by George Norris Green Pdf

Texas has a history of producing nationally prominent leaders. It is also important for its burgeoning population and its natural resources. Few can argue that its politics are not fascinating. The years from 1938 to 1957 were the most primitive period of rule by the Texas Establishment, a loosely knit plutocracy of the Anglo upper classes answering only to the vested interests in banking, oil, land development, law, the merchant houses, and the press. Establishment rule was reflected in numerous and harsh antilabor laws, the suppression of academic freedom, a segregationist philosophy, elections marred by demagoguery and corruption, the devolution of the daily press, and a state government that offered its citizens, especially minorities, very few services. Important elements in the contemporary political scene originated between 1938 and 1957.

Author : Cal Jillson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780203829417

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Texas Politics by Cal Jillson Pdf

Approaching the politics of the Lone Star State from historical, developmental, and analytical perspectives, Cal Jillson's text avoids partisanship, ideology, and gimmicks to provide the most comprehensive, readable, and accurate brief description of Texas politics available today. Throughout the book students are encouraged to connect the origins and development of government and politics in Texas—from the Texas Constitution, to party competition, to the role and powers of the Governor—to its current day practice and the alternatives possible through change and reform. This text will allow teachers to share with their students the evolution of Texas politics, where we stand today, and where we are headed. Texas Politics is one of the briefest and most affordable texts on the market, yet it offers instructors and students an unmatched range of pedagogical aids and tools. Each chapter opens with a number of focus questions to orient readers to the learning objectives and concludes with a Chapter Summary, a list of Key Terms, Suggested Readings, and Web Resources. Key Terms are bolded in the text, listed at the end of the chapter, and included in a Glossary at the end of the book. Each chapter presents several photos and numerous tables and figures to highlight the major ideas, issues, individuals, and institutions discussed. Each chapter also contains a Let’s Compare feature, comparing selected states to Texas on various dimensions.

Author : Charldean Newell,David Prindle,James Riddlesperger
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1285853148

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Texas Politics 2015-2016 by Charldean Newell,David Prindle,James Riddlesperger Pdf

TEXAS POLITICS: IDEAL AND REALITY critically compares Texas government and politics to the concepts of democratic theory by raising three main themes: democratic ideals, conservatism, and conflict. Lively presentation of material encourages students to consider controversial issues and debates. In the 2015-2016 Edition, new policy coverage, updates reflecting the Texas legislative session that ended in June 2014, and new “Texas Politics and You” features that ask students to become directly involved in current and contentious issues, often through social media, keep this book cutting edge. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Author : Chandler Davidson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691025398

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Race and Class in Texas Politics by Chandler Davidson Pdf

The author brings mature understanding to the socio-economic factors that underlie the bewildering tangle of Texas politics.

Author : William Earl Maxwell,Ernest Crain,Luther Guy Hagard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Texas
ISBN : IND:39000003022238

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Texas Politics Today by William Earl Maxwell,Ernest Crain,Luther Guy Hagard Pdf

Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525435907

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God Save Texas by Lawrence Wright Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.

Author : Stacey Jurhree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1524913618

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American Government & Texas Politics by Stacey Jurhree Pdf

Author : Brandon Rottinghaus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Texas
ISBN : 0190928395

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Inside Texas Politics by Brandon Rottinghaus Pdf

"Inside Texas Politics provides students with an exciting insider's perspective on the world of Texas government. Its focus on how power struggles have shaped Texas institutions and political processes offers students a fresh perspective that differentiates itself from all other texts on the market. Rottinghaus' anecdotes make Inside Texas Politics fun and relevant for today's students, and his visual representations of data foster the skills students need in order to understand and think critically about the political world around them"--

Author : Wayne Thorburn
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781477322512

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The Republican Party of Texas by Wayne Thorburn Pdf

On July 4, 1867, a group of men assembled in Houston to establish the Republican Party of Texas. Combatting entrenched statewide support for the Democratic Party and their own internal divisions, Republicans struggled to gain a foothold in the Lone Star State, which had sided with the Confederacy and aligned with the Democratic platform. In The Republican Party of Texas, Wayne Thorburn, former executive director of the Texas GOP, chronicles over one hundred and fifty years of the defeats and victories of the party that became the dominant political force in Texas in the modern era. Thorburn documents the organizational structure of the Texas GOP, drawing attention to prominent names, such as Harry Wurzbach and George W. Bush, alongside lesser-known community leaders who bolstered local support. The 1960s and 1970s proved a watershed era for Texas Republicans as they shored up ideological divides and elected the first Republican governor and more state senators and congressional representatives than ever before. From decisions about candidates and shifting allegiances and political stances, to race-based divisions and strategic cooperation with leaders in the Democratic Party, Thorburn unearths the development of the GOP in Texas to understand the unique Texan conservatism that prevails today.

Author : James E. Anderson,Richard W. Murray,Edward L. Farley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Texas
ISBN : UCAL:$B564830

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Texas Politics: an Introduction by James E. Anderson,Richard W. Murray,Edward L. Farley Pdf

Author : Wayne Thorburn
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780292759220

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Red State by Wayne Thorburn Pdf

A political scientist and Republican party insider examines how Texas made its dramatic shift from Democratic stronghold to GOP dominance. In November 1960, the Democratic party dominated Texas. Democrats held all thirty statewide elective positions as well as the entire state legislature. Fifty years later, this stronghold had not only been lost—it had reversed. In November 2010, Republicans controlled every statewide elective office, as well as the Texas Senate and House of Representatives. The state’s congressional delegation in Washington was comprised of twenty-five Republicans and nine Democrats. Red State explores why this transformation took place and what these changes imply for the future of Texas politics. Wayne Thorburn analyzes a wealth of data to show how changes in the state’s demographics—including an influx of new residents, the shift from rural to urban, and the growth of the Mexican American population—have moved Texas through three stages of party competition, from two-tiered politics to two-party competition, and then to the return to one-party dominance, this time by Republicans. Thorburn reveals that the shift from Democratic to Republican governance has been driven not by any change in Texans’ ideological perspective or public policy orientation—even when Texans were voting Democrat, conservatives outnumbered liberals or moderates—but by the Republican party’s increasing identification with conservatism since 1960.

Author : Cal Jillson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317666943

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Lone Star Tarnished by Cal Jillson Pdf

Texas pride, like everything else in the state, is larger than life. So, too, perhaps, are the state’s challenges. Lone Star Tarnished, 2nd edition approaches public policy in the nation’s most populous "red state" from historical, comparative, and critical perspectives. The historical perspective provides the scope for asking how various policy domains have developed in Texas history, regularly reaching back to the state’s founding and with substantial data for the period 1950 to the present. In each chapter, Cal Jillson compares Texas public policy choices and results with those of other states and the United States in general. Finally, the critical perspective allows us to question the balance of benefits and costs attendant to what is often referred to as "the Texas way" or "the Texas model." Jillson delves deeply into seven substantive policy chapters, covering the most important policy areas in which state governments are active. The second edition includes completely rewritten first and second chapters, as well as updates throughout the book and revised figures and tables. Through Jillson's lively and lucid prose, students are well equipped to analyze how Texas has done and is doing compared to selected states and the national average over time and today. Readers will also come away with the necessary tools to assess the many claims of Texas’s exceptionalism.

Author : Cal Jillson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317553359

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Texas Politics by Cal Jillson Pdf

The fifth edition of this popular text is now expanded and updated to better fit the needs of a stand-alone Texas Politics course. Jillson continues to approach the politics of the Lone Star State from historical, developmental, and analytical perspectives, while giving students the most even-handed, readable, and engaging description of Texas politics available today. Throughout the book students are encouraged to connect the origins and development of government and politics in Texas--from the Texas Constitution, to party competition, to the role and powers of the Governor--to its current day practice and the alternatives possible through change and reform. This text helps instructors prepare their students to master the origin and development of the Texas Constitution, the structure and powers of state and local government in Texas, how Texas fits into the U.S. federal system, as well as political participation, the electoral process, and public policy in Texas. Texas Politics offers instructors and students an unmatched range of pedagogical aids and tools. Each chapter opens with an engaging vignette and a series of focus questions to orient readers to the learning objectives at hand and concludes with a chapter summary, a list of key terms, review questions, suggested readings, and web resources. Key terms are bolded in the text, listed at the end of the chapter, and included in a glossary at the end of the book. Each chapter includes "Let's Compare" boxes to help students see how Texas sits alongside other states, and "Pro & Con" boxes to bring conflicting political views into sharper focus. Tables, figures, and photos throughout highlight the major ideas, issues, individuals, and institutions discussed.

Author : Robert Locander,Richard Shaw,Kevin Bailey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798986407814

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The Real World of Texas Politics by Robert Locander,Richard Shaw,Kevin Bailey Pdf

You may think you know Texas, but which one? Texas is a land shrouded in myths, and so is its politics. The Real World of Texas Politics pulls back the veil on those myths and reveals the secrets the elites don’t want you to know. It lays bare the dual worlds of the Lone Star State: the one for the elites, and the one for the masses. Inspired by the works of political scientist James Lamare, the authors argue that the privileged few have used their superior resources to dominate all aspects of the Texas political system, from voting and elections to government institutions and policymaking. This dominance by the elites has resulted in a subsistence life and limited future for millions of people living in twenty-first century Texas. The authors are insiders — Locander a political scientist, Shaw a union leader, and Bailey a state representative — with a combined ten-decade involvement in Texas politics and government. But they’re also outsiders, holding views that don’t align with the people in power. Rather than placate, they seek to scrutinize with a skeptical eye the most pressing issues facing one of America’s most important and most populous states. They lay bare the crass influence of money and power and provide a roadmap for what Texas can do to get state government working for average Texans. The Real World of Texas Politics challenges the economic and political status quo. It peels back the myths to expose how the state’s leaders, both Democrats and Republicans, have forsaken the masses to cater to the rich and powerful. Reversing this trend takes knowledge, and this book offers a hefty dose by taking a hard look at how politics and power really work in the Lone Star State.

Author : Eric Lopez,Marcus Stadelmann,Robert E. Sterken, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733329919

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Uncovering Texas Politics in the 21st Century by Eric Lopez,Marcus Stadelmann,Robert E. Sterken, Jr. Pdf