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Manitoba Politics and Government is a rich and fascinating account of a province that strives for the centre, for the delicate middle ground where individualism and collectivism overlap, and where a multitude of different cultures and traditions create a highly balanced society."--Pub. desc.

Intro -- Endorsement Statement -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- List of Key Topic Debates -- About the Authors -- Tour of the Book -- Digital Resources -- How to Use the Book -- 1 DEMOCRACY AND PARTICIPATION: SUFFRAGE -- Chapter Preview -- Key Questions and Debates -- Democracy -- What is democracy? -- Legitimacy -- Types of democracy -- Direct democracy -- Representative democracy -- Advantages of direct democracy/disadvantages of representative democracy -- Advantages of representative democracy/disadvantages of direct democracy -- Key Debate Summary: Is direct democracy superior to representative democracy? -- Voting and non-voting -- Party membership -- Group politics -- Social movements and direct action -- Individual politics -- Key Debate Summary: Is the UK suffering from a participation crisis? -- Enhancing democracy in the UK -- Key Debate Summary: Will reforms enhance democracy in the UK? -- A wider franchise and debates over suffrage -- Universal suffrage -- CASE STUDY 1.1: THE WORK OF THE SUFFRAGISTS/SUFFRAGETTES TO EXTEND THE FRANCHISE -- The right to vote in the twenty-first century -- Should the franchise be extended to 16and 17-year-olds? -- Should voting be compulsory? -- CASE STUDY 1.2: VOTES FOR PRISONERS: A MODERN CAMPAIGN TO -- Chapter Summary -- Exam Style Questions -- Source Question -- Further Resources -- 2 DEMOCRACY AND PARTICIPATION: PRESSURE GROUPS AND OTHER INFLUENCES AND RIGHTS IN CONTEXT -- Chapter Preview -- Key Questions and Debates -- Specification Checklist -- What are pressure groups? -- Types of groups -- Pressure groups -- Interest and cause groups -- Insider and outsider groups -- Think tanks -- CASE STUDY 2.1: EXTINCTION REBELLION -- Corporations -- CASE STUDY 2.2: THE CENTRE FOR POLICY STUDIES -- Lobbyists -- Methods used by pressure participants to exert influence on both government and parliament.

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.