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"Published a decade and a half after the late Diane D. Blair's influential book Arkansas Politics and Government, this freshly revised edition builds on her work, which highlighted both the decades of failure by Arkansas's government to live up to the state's motto of Regnat Populus ("The People Rule") and the positive trends of democracy." "While maintaining the basic structure of Blair's original work with its focus on important historical patterns and the ways in which the past continues to shape the present, the second edition details the causes and consequences of recent changes in Arkansas and asks whether they are profound and permanent or merely transitory variations in symbol and style. Jay Barth argues that although Arkansas currently expresses a healthier representative democracy than throughout most of its history, its political and governmental entities are still sharply limited as effective instruments of "the people.""--Jacket

The election of a new chief executive creates a number of needs, especially for information, for all other participants in the political system. Thus, the transition period, as the incumbent makes way for a successor, is a crucial instance of a rhetorical situation.

It has become commonplace in contemporary discussions of Arkansas politics to make certain intrastate or regional distinctions. For example, based on the evidence of the last decade's statewide and substrate elections, Republican candidates are more likely to find favor in northwest Arkansas than in southeast Arkansas. Drawing on everything from legislative positions on the Equal Rights Amendment and creation science bill to advertisements in the Arkansas Times, it is widely assumed that values and attitudes are more progressive in the densely-populated, more urban and sophisticated central region than in the sparsely-populated, more rural and provincial hills and lowlands. The considerable Black population in eastern and southern Arkansas presumably skews political opinions and judgments in one direction, while the increasing numbers of midwestern migrants into northern and western Arkansas presumably have a distinctive and dissimilar political impact.

An examination of the multidimensionality of content of "women's public policies" in the factor analysis of the simple incidence of 88 policies across the 50 states reveals 9 patterns of response. Each of these dimensions reflects a variety of policy concerns; but close examination suggests a range along a continuum from the maintenance of traditional roles (patriarchical protection, workplace protection, & vestigial inequities) through the provision of role equity (minimal equity, political equity, credit equity, & contemporary legal equity) to the promotion of role change (general sex neutrality, & the partnership family). 3 Tables. HA.