Texas Politics: An Introduction
Designed to complement a comprehensive American Government text, this brief volume focuses primarily on the structures, issues, and trends that are unique to Texas politics.
First person essays illustrate how Texas politics works in real-world practice. Closing the gap between political theory and reality, the text gives you a clear understanding of how Texas compares with other states.
The authors provide a context for that information by comparing and contrasting the workings of Texas government with that of the federal and other state governments--making this text an excellent choice for integrated courses that study ...
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...
"How Texas Politics Really Works" is an uncommon introduction to a subject that is shrouded in economic and governmental myths, This book exposes exactly how Democratic and Republican party leaders, in the past and the present, have ridden ...
Jackson Democrats (Unionists), 131 Jefferson, Wallace B., 165–166, 337, 372–373, 376 Jeffreys, Alec, 502 Jillson, Cal, 8–9 Jim Crow laws (de jure segregation), 6, 11 Johnson, Alan A., 46 Johnson, Lyndon B., 11, 53, 132, 159, 166, 220, ...
The #1 selling book for Texas government courses, with a new focus on the future of Texas politics.
TEXAS POLITICS TODAY continues to be a best-selling overview of Texas Politics because it offers students a wide range of viewpoints, drawing on the diverse political and social perspectives of its contributing authors to give students rich ...
This book exposes exactly how Democratic and Republican party leaders, in the past and the present, have ridden herd over the people of Texas in their desire to do the bidding of the rich and powerful.