Readings in Arkansas politics and government, 2nd edition

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Foundations and Context in Arkansas Politics and Government -- 1. The Antievolution Law: Church and State in Arkansas -- 2. Low Villains and Wickedness in High Places: Race and Class in the Elaine Race Riots -- 3. A Place at the Table: Hot Springs and the GI Revolt -- 4. The Arkansas Electorate -- 5. Arkansas: Trump is a Natural for the Natural State -- Part II. Institutions and Actors in Arkansas Politics and Government -- 6. "The Great Negro State of the Country"? Black Legislators in Arkansas, 1973-2000 -- 7. Term Limits in Arkansas: Opportunities and Consequences -- 8. Orval E. Faubus: Out of Socialism into Realism -- 9. Noblesse Oblige and Practical Politics: Winthrop Rockefeller and the Civil Rights Movement -- 10. The Big Three of Late Twentieth-Century Arkansas Politics: Dale Bumpers, Bill Clinton, and David Pryor -- 11. The Evolution of Judicial Selection in Arkansas: External and Internal Explanations of Change and Potential Future Directions -- 12. A Practitioner's Guide to Arkansas's New Judicial Article -- 13. The Natural State in a Time of Change: A Survey-Based Analysis of State Party Organizations in Arkansas, 1999-2013 -- 14. The Arkansas State Budget Process: A Unique and Reliable Approach -- Part III. Public Policy Conflicts in Arkansas Politics and Government -- 15. "Dedicated People": Little Rock Central High School's Teachers during the Integration Crisis of 1957-1958 -- 16. Going Off the Deep End: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Desegregation of Little Rock's Public Swimming Pools -- 17. A Crime Unfit to Be Named: Arkansas and Sodomy -- 18. Keeping Hope Alive: A Case Study of the Continuing Argument for Ratification of the ERA -- 19. Effects of Prohibition in Arkansas Counties.