Arkansas Politics & Government: Do the People Rule?U of Nebraska Press, 1988年1月1日 - 362 頁 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.ø 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. |
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The Past in the Present | 3 |
TABLES | 16 |
THREE | 27 |
Traditional Politics and Its Transformation | 38 |
FOUR | 44 |
Voter Turnout in Arkansas and the Nation 19481984 | 54 |
Contemporary Political Patterns | 61 |
Party Identification of Arkansas Voters | 91 |
How Democratic? | 222 |
THIRTEEN | 229 |
The Politics of State Services | 241 |
Summary of Budget Allocations by Function as a Percentage of State | 253 |
Continuity and Change in Arkansas Politics | 264 |
Top Ten States of Origin of Migrants to Arkansas 18331850 | 267 |
Rural Swing Counties 85 | 277 |
FIFTEEN | 279 |
Provisions and Politics | 120 |
EIGHT | 136 |
NINE | 160 |
Competitiveness of Arkansas Legislative Elections 19741984 | 168 |
Suggested Sources | 285 |
FIGURES | 309 |
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