Published as a "Longman Study Edition" this text contains a battery of practice chapter tests for student self study and review. New to the Eleventh Edition- Full coverage of the 2008 election has been added to the text.
This text is aimed at students and professors of Texas politics who want to stress history, political culture, and public policy.
New to this Edition Chapter 5 discusses the historic voter turnout in the 2008 presidential election, focusing on younger adults who provided the margin of victory for Barack Obama, and Chapter 6 looks at the political impact of new ...
Designed to assist local United Ways and their affiliated agencies, as well as other health and human service policy and program advocates, to have an impact on state-level decisions made by the Texas Legislature, the Office of the Governor ...
Texas Politics and Government provides a coherent, analytical introduction to Texas politics that is both comprehensive and innovative. Framing the book on the ideas that have shaped Texas politics past...
"The Texas Institutionalists".
STATE OF TEXAS: Government, Politics, and Policy
So, too, perhaps, are the state's challenges. Lone Star Tarnished approaches public policy in the nation's most populous "red state" from historical, comparative, and critical perspectives.
By contrast, the essays in this volume explore how low-income citizens have successfully affected public policy.
This book presents the results of a major study of colonias in three transborder metropolitan areas and uncovers the reasons why colonias are spreading so rapidly.