Download or read book Arkansas Politics and Government written by Diane D. Blair and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published a decade and a half after the late Diane D. Blair s influential book Arkansas Politics and Government, this freshly revised edition builds on her work, which highlighted both the decades of failure by Arkansas's government to live up to the state s motto of Regnat Populus ( The People Rule ) and the positive trends of democracy. Since the first edition, Arkansas has seen the two-term U.S. presidency of a native son, the retirement of players who defined the state s politics in the modern era, the further realignment of the state s electorate, the passage of the nation s most extreme legislative term limits, the complete overhaul of the state s court system, and the declaration that the state s public education system was unconstitutionally inadequate and inequitable. While maintaining the basic structure of Blair s original work with its focus on important historical patterns and the ways in which the past continues to shape the present, the second edition details the causes and consequences of recent changes in Arkansas and asks whether they are profound and permanent or merely transitory variations in symbol and style. Jay Barth argues that although Arkansas currently expresses a healthier representative democracy than throughout most of its history, its political and governmental entities are still sharply limited as effective instruments of the people.
Download or read book Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government written by Kim U. Hoffman and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the authoritative Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government brings together in one volume some of the best available scholarly research on a wide range of issues of interest to students of Arkansas politics and government. The twenty-one chapters are arranged in three sections covering both historical and contemporary issues—ranging from the state’s socioeconomic and political context to the workings of its policymaking institutions and key policy concerns in the modern political landscape. Topics covered include racial tension and integration, social values, political corruption, public education, obstacles facing the state’s effort to reform welfare, and others. Ideal for use in introductory and advanced undergraduate courses, the book will also appeal to lawmakers, public administrators, journalists, and others interested in how politics and government work in Arkansas.
Download or read book Arkansas Politics Government written by Diane D. Blair and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this full-scale study of Arkansas politics and government, Diane D. Blair spots many encouraging trends: an upsurge in voter registration and participation, the growth of partisan competition, the increasing influence of women and blacks in state and local government, and the state's provision of more, and more varied, public services. It was not always so. Blair asserts that, in spite of the state's proud motto of Regnat Populus (The People Rule), an unresponsive and sometimes self-serving elite ruled over an apathetic and often oppressed populace for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She explains the causes and consequences of changes in Arkansas and asks whether they are profound and permanent ones or merely transitory changes in symbol and style. In this forward-looking hand-book for general readers and scholars alike, Blair considers the distinctive fea-tures of Arkansas politics and the organization and functioning of the state's government.
Download or read book The Governors of Arkansas written by Timothy Paul Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated to include a biography of the three latest governors, one of whom is United States president Bill Clinton, this new edition includes fascinating individual profiles of the state's forty-three consecutive leaders since 1836. From Conway to Tucker, the biographical sketches are filled with valuable personal and political data detailing each governor's origin, family, education, occupation, and accomplishments and failures while in and out of office. By examining the issues confronting Arkansas's governors, the contributors have provided a provocative portrait of the state's political leadership and have explored a whole range of social and economic questions.
Download or read book Government and Politics in Arkansas written by Dava P. James and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Government in Arkansas written by Peg Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Politics on the Southwestern Frontier Arkansas Territory 1819 1836 written by Lonnie J. White and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Constitution of the State of Arkansas with Amendments written by Arkansas and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Blue to Red written by John C. Davis and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of Election Day 2010, Democrats occupied three of the four Arkansas seats in the US House of Representatives, both US Senate seats, all state constitutional offices, and decisive majorities in both chambers of the Arkansas General Assembly. By the time votes were counted that evening, it was clear that the balance of power had shifted. Within five years, Arkansas Republicans would hold all six US congressional positions and every state constitutional seat and claim growing supermajorities in both state chambers. Since then, Republicans have enjoyed robust electoral success in Arkansas—formerly the last remaining state of the “Solid South” held by Democrats. John C. Davis’s From Blue to Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas provides a rigorous yet accessible study of this partisan shift, tracking changes in voter preference at the top of the ticket in the 1960s, generational replacement in Arkansas’ political power structure in the 1990s, and the emergence of a more nationalized and polarized electorate in the 2000s, among other developments. From Blue to Red is a fascinating look at how Arkansas went from being one of the country’s most solidly Democratic states to one of its most ardently Republican in just a few years.
Download or read book Debates in the House of Representatives of the State of Arkansas on the Resolution Tendering the Thanks of the House to Brig Gen Catterson and Command for Their Services Pub by the Order of the House written by Arkansas. General Assembly. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outline of Executive and Legislative History of Arkansas Classic Reprint written by Dallas T. Herndon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Outline of Executive and Legislative History of Arkansas Congress, in an Act approved by President James Madison, January 27, 1814, made special and exceptional provision for the establishment and maintenance Of civil government in what is now the State Of Arkansas. This Act Of 1814 provided for the appointment Of' 'an additional judge for the Territory of 'missouri, who, as the chief judicial and administrative Officer in and for that part of Missouri within the limits Of the late district of Arkansas, as fixed and established while the same was a part Of the territory Of 'louisiana, was required by law to reside at or near the village Of Arkansas. George Bullit, whom the President appointed to the Office thus created, was a lawyer Of Ste. Genevieve county, Missouri. 'elected November 9, 1812, a member Of the first house Of representatives Of Missouri, he had been chosen speaker at the second session Of the first Gen eral Assembly in December, 1813. He removed, Soon after his appointment as judge of the district Of Arkansas, with his family to Arkansas Post. There he continued in Office until 1819, when the Territory Of Arkansas was created. By, an Act approved December 13, 1813, the first General Assembly Of Missouri had created the county of Arkansas, out of what had been, since 1806, the district Of Arkansas. Subsequently, the legislature of Mis souri divided Arkansas county, forming the county Of Lawrence January 15, and the counties of Clark, Hempstead and Pulaski by a single Act approved December 15, 1818. During the five years Of his judicial services, Judge Bullit held court reg ularly, two terms in each and every year, in and for the dis triet embraced by the five counties Of Arkansas, Lawrence, Clark, Hempstead and Pulaski, and otherwise effectually organized affairs-of civil government in each. Thus, when in 1819 the Territory of Arkansas was established, as a result Of the work Of Judge Bullit, Arkansas began its separate political existence with all the necessary machinery of local government already in operation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Agenda for Reform written by Cathy Kunzinger Urwin and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Winthrop Rockefeller was elected governor of Arkansas in 1966, he became the first Republican to hold the governor's office since Reconstruction. Cathy Kunzinger Urwin examines Rockefeller's tenure by looking beyond his immediate successes and failures to the broader, dramatic changes that marked the era. Rockefeller helped break up the political machines that had controlled Arkansas politics for almost a hundred years, made lasting contributions in the areas of prison reform and civil rights, and obliged the Democratic Party to find Dale Bumpers, a young, bright, progressive gubernatorial candidate to oppose him in 1970.
Download or read book Inside the Arkansas Legislature written by Bill ?Scoop? Lancaster and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From October 15, 1978, until January 20, 2004, I worked for the Arkansas General Assembly, a.k.a. the Arkansas legislature. Thats more than a quarter century on the public payroll. The legislature is made up of a hundred representatives in the House and thirty-five senators in the Senate. A big part of my job as Senate chief of staff was public relationsdaily attempts to put a positive spin on the men and women who held these very public positions. My duties included speech writing, supervising a large staff, traveling the country, and even driving legislators home after they had stayed too long at local watering holes and honky-tonks. I even had to tell one preacher/legislator not to be hanging out with well-known prostitutes, and that certainly was not a pleasant assignmentfor me, I mean, not the preacher. This book is a look-back at those twenty-five-plus years. Some experiences were uproariously funny, while others were devastatingly sad and distressing. I became the Arkansas Senates first chief of staff in 1985 and stayed in this post about twenty years. My previous six years were spent in the House, where I held two positions. These pages will reflect some of what I went through in my work and will present stories about the men and women who sat in those big leather chairs in the marbled chambers. Some of them wielded enormous power, and some went away to prison for abusing that power. And the issue of term limits and how their enactment in the mid-90s changed Arkansas politics will also be a topic of discussion. I had to stand my ground when things got heated, and I always remained truthful even when the various factions pulled and tugged at me. I worked with some enormously talented individuals, including President Bill Clinton. He dropped by the office to tell us good-bye as he left his home state to take over a much bigger job in Washington, DC. It was a day to remember, like so many others there in Arkansass most imposing, century-old building. The enactment of term limits dramatically changed Arkansas history and stripped the legislature of much of its power and influence. Before terms were scaled back by angry voters, legislators in Arkansas served decades and controlled the government purse strings. There was little doubt that powerful legislators ruled the roost, and everyonegovernors, employees, and lobbyistshad to kowtow to their every need or else pay a huge price. The Democratic Party stayed in power for a very long time until term limits sent veteran legislators packing and set the stage for a Republican Party takeover of the legislature and the states constitutional offices. I witnessed the old system up close and personally and was proud and honored to be an integral part of it, and I stayed long enough to see how the new term-limited neophytes took to their publically financed playground. One of the veteran senators became governorhis name, Mike Beebe. He served twenty years in the Senate, and he was the person responsible for my taking the chief of staff job. He later served two four-year terms as governor, and over the years, he encouraged me to put this book together because he said, no one will remember how the Arkansas legislature worked or even existed prior to term limits unless some of the stories and some of the colorful history are preserved by an insider who actually worked at the place where power lived for so long. Some days at my plush office were a breeze, but others made me long for my job back at the newspaper office. Now retired, I look back on my career with great satisfaction, and Im glad that for a while, at least, I was, what one of my lobbyist pals called, the straw that stirred the drink.
