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...
The fifth edition of this popular text is now expanded and updated to better fit the needs of a stand-alone Texas Politics course.
The second edition includes completely rewritten first and second chapters, as well as updates throughout the book and revised figures and tables.
The third edition includes completely rewritten first and second chapters, as well as updates throughout the book and revised figures and tables. Also new to the third edition is a completely new chapter on higher education in Texas.
Grounded in foundational debates, classic political science scholarship, and the best contemporary analysis of developmental trends, this reader invites introductory students to probe the historical dynamics that brought the United States ...
This text is aimed at students and professors of Texas politics who want to stress history, political culture, and public policy.
The seventh edition of this popular text has been expanded and updated to better fit the needs of a stand-alone Texas politics course.
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The third edition includes completely rewritten first and second chapters, as well as updates throughout the book and revised figures and tables. Also new to the third edition is a completely new chapter on higher education in Texas.
This text will allow teachers to share with their students the evolution of Texas politics, where we stand today, and where we are headed.
The second edition includes completely rewritten first and second chapters, as well as updates throughout the book and revised figures and tables.
This new edition offers to help American government teachers lead their students to a nuanced theoretical and practical understanding of what is happening in the politics of their Constitutional democracy today.
Political Development and Institutional Change Cal Jillson ... Vital Statistics on American Politics, 2013–2014 (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2014), Table 9.1, 345; Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty ...
Many Texas conservatives argued that even if the Voting Rights Act was initially warranted, now forty years on, ... it in the hands of Q5 Is the power shift from Democrats to Republicans in The Redistricting Dust-Up of 2011–2012 131.
The new edition of the briefest and most affordable American Government text on the market updates data through the 2018 Midterm elections, looks ahead to 2020, and puts events of the Trump Administration in context with principles of ...
This new edition offers to help American government teachers lead their students to a nuanced theoretical and practical understanding of what is happening in the politics of their Constitutional democracy today"--
These revisions make the Seventh Edition better than ever: The latest details on all aspects of American politics, including the 2012 elections, keep students current Coverage of Obama’s full first term and heightened polarization in ...
Figure 9.2 U.S. House and Senate, 1946-2006, Percent of Members Standing for Reelection Who Are Reelected 100 80 40 20 1946 1956 1966 1976 1986 1996 2006 Sooree: Ornstein, Mann, and Malbin, Vital Statistics on Congress, 2001-2002, ...
How politics in America works today, how it got that way, and how it's likely to change through reform--these are the themes that pervade every chapter of Cal Jillson's highly lauded American Government: Political Development and ...
Published annually at the start of each year this text provides unmatched currency and is the first student-centered American government text.