{"product_id":"arkansas-politics-and-government-paperback","title":"Arkansas Politics and Government - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiane D. Blair Irrevocable Trust\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJay Barth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished a decade and a half after the late Diane D. Blair's influential book \u003ci\u003eArkansas Politics and Government\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eRegnat Populus\u003c\/i\u003e (\"The People Rule\") and the positive trends of democracy. Since the first edition, Arkansas has seen the two-term U.S. presidency of a native son, the retirement of players who defined the state's politics in the modern era, the further realignment of the state's electorate, the passage of the nation's most extreme legislative term limits, the complete overhaul of the state's court system, and the declaration that the state's public education system was unconstitutionally inadequate and inequitable. 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiane D. Blair was a professor of political science at the University of Arkansas and the editor of \u003ci\u003eSilent Hattie Speaks: The Personal Journal of Senator Hattie Caraway\u003c\/i\u003e. Jay Barth is an associate professor and chair in the Politics department at Hendrix College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 497\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.05 x 9 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52732750922035,"sku":"9780803261983","price":63.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/JStVY9qgHT9780803261983.webp?v=1763906359","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/arkansas-politics-and-government-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}