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Author: Brandon Rottinghaus Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780190299514 Category : Texas Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Each chapter opens with a compelling story that -- along with the rich use of poignant and humorous examples -- brings Texas politics to life in a manner never accomplished before by a Texas government textbook. Insider Interviews with key political figures provide students with examples of what is happening -- or not happening -- behind the scenes. Great Texas Political Debates add context to discussions about current issues. "Is it Bigger in Texas?" boxes compare Texas with other states in the Union. "Angles of Power" features investigate political and personal interactions between key players and institutions. Communication, Critical Thinking, Social Responsibility, and Personal Responsibility questions address the requirement of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. "Texas Takeaways" questions help students check their understanding. "See For Yourself" features enable students to connect to videos and other interactive online content with the click of a smartphone. Extensive coverage of Latinos highlights the importance and complexities of this growing demographic and voting group.
Author: Brandon Rottinghaus Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780190299514 Category : Texas Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Each chapter opens with a compelling story that -- along with the rich use of poignant and humorous examples -- brings Texas politics to life in a manner never accomplished before by a Texas government textbook. Insider Interviews with key political figures provide students with examples of what is happening -- or not happening -- behind the scenes. Great Texas Political Debates add context to discussions about current issues. "Is it Bigger in Texas?" boxes compare Texas with other states in the Union. "Angles of Power" features investigate political and personal interactions between key players and institutions. Communication, Critical Thinking, Social Responsibility, and Personal Responsibility questions address the requirement of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. "Texas Takeaways" questions help students check their understanding. "See For Yourself" features enable students to connect to videos and other interactive online content with the click of a smartphone. Extensive coverage of Latinos highlights the importance and complexities of this growing demographic and voting group.
Author: Lawrence Wright Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525435905 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 370
Book Description
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: Kevin Bailey Publisher: ISBN: 9781532346453 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Finally, a Texas truth-telling tale about Lone Star State politics by three authors with over 100 combined years of experience as Austin insiders and outsiders. "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 herd over the people of Texas in their desire to do the bidding of the rich and powerful. The authors believe that the massses, who have historically received the short end of the rope from elites, can come together to change the state power dynamic through peaceful political action. Knowledge is where it starts, and this book is a long hard look at the reality of Texas politics.
Author: Mike Collier Publisher: ISBN: 9781632990983 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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Mike Collier knew he was fighting an uphill battle. A retired PwC partner and a CPA with 25 years of experience, Mike was the logical choice for Texas State Comptroller--the chief financial officer of the second largest state in America. But he stood on principle and quit the Republican Party to run as a corruption-fighting Texas Democrat in a state that only elects Republicans. Because he dislikes intolerance and overreach, Mike successfully reached across the aisle and garnered support from Republicans and Democrats alike by campaigning on fiscal responsibility. But he lost the election to a rice farmer who was hand picked by the Republican Party, a political machine whose bad-for-Texas antics Mike brings to life through his stories from the campaign trail. IPPY Award Winner Out of Comptrol details the difficult but exhilarating path of a modern political campaign, from the decision to try to make a difference to fundraising, stump speaking, and TV jitters. With personality and humor, Mike offers first an outsider's and then a tenacious insider's view of Texas politics. His excitement and frustration make Mike's experience a story you won't forget. Updated in 2019 with his take on the close race for lieutenant governor!
Author: Max Krochmal Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469626764 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 555
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This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracy in Texas, when African American, Mexican American, and white labor and community activists gradually came together to empower the state's marginalized minorities. At the ballot box and in the streets, these diverse activists demanded not only integration but economic justice, labor rights, and real political power for all. Their efforts gave rise to the Democratic Coalition of the 1960s, a militant, multiracial alliance that would take on and eventually overthrow both Jim Crow and Juan Crow. Using rare archival sources and original oral history interviews, Krochmal reveals the often-overlooked democratic foundations and liberal tradition of one of our nation's most conservative states. Blue Texas remembers the many forgotten activists who, by crossing racial lines and building coalitions, democratized their cities and state to a degree that would have been unimaginable just a decade earlier--and it shows why their story still matters today.
Author: Ken Collier Publisher: CQ Press ISBN: 1071808923 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 769
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In Texas, myth often clashes with the reality of everyday government. Explore the state′s rich political tradition with Lone Star Politics as the author team explains who gets what and how. Utilizing a comparative approach, the authors set Texas in context with other states′ constitutions, policymaking, electoral practices, and institutions as they delve into the evolution of its politics. Critical thinking questions and unvarnished "Winners and Losers" discussions guide students toward understanding Texas government and assessing the state′s political landscape. The highly anticipated Seventh Edition includes coverage of the state′s response to the COVID pandemic, brand new chapter-level learning objectives, updated demographic and immigration statistics, and new Discussion Starter questions to help in-class discussion on critical policy debates. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. CQ Press Lecture Spark: Designed to save you time and ignite student engagement, these free weekly lecture launchers focus on current event topics tied to key concepts in American Government.
Author: Brandon Rottinghaus
Author: Brandon Rottinghaus
Author: Brandon Rottinghaus
Author: Rottinghaus
Author: Lawrence Wright
Author: Kevin Bailey
Author: Eric Lopez
Author: Mike Collier
Author: Max Krochmal
Author: Rottinghaus
Author: Ken Collier