Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government

CONTENTS

PART I:
Foundations and Context in Arkansas Politics and Government

Political Culture, Political Attitudes, and Aggregated Demographic
Effects: Regionalism and Political Ideology in Arkansas
JANINE A. PARRY ANDWILLIAM D. SCHRECKHISE

The Proposed Arkansas Constitution of 1970
ROBERTW. MERIWETHER

Intelligible, Honest, and Impartial Democracy: Making Laws at the Arkansas Ballot Box; or, Why Jim Hannah
and Ray Thornton Were Right about May v. Daniels
STEVE SHEPPARD

The Antievolution Law: Church and State in Arkansas
CAL LEDBETTER JR.

Low Villains and Wickedness in High Places: Race and Class in the Elaine Race Riots
JEANNIE M. WHAYNE

A Place at the Table: Hot Springs and the GI Revolt
PATSY HAWTHORN RAMSEY

PART II:
Policymaking Institutions in Arkansas Politics and Government

“The Great Negro State of the Country”?: Black Legislators in Arkansas, 1973–2000
JANINE A. PARRY ANDWILLIAM H. MILLER

Term Limits in Arkansas: Opportunities and Consequences
ART ENGLISH

Arkansas Governors in the Twentieth Century: A Ranking and Analysis
CAL LEDBETTER JR. AND C. FREDWILLIAMS

A Practitioner’s Guide to Arkansas’s New Judicial Article
LARRY BRADY AND J. D. GINGERICH

History, Political Culture, and Constitutional Reform in Arkansas
GARY D. WEKKIN AND DONALD E. WHISTLER

PART III:
Practicing Politics in Arkansas Politics and Government

Orval E. Faubus: Out of Socialism into Realism
ROY REED

Noblesse Oblige and Practical Politics:Winthrop Rockefeller and the Civil Rights Movement
CATHY KUNZINGER URWIN

The Arkansas Electorate
JIM RANCHINO

“What Women Wanted”: Arkansas’s Women’s Commissions and the ERA
JANINE A. PARRY

A Crime Unfit to Be Named: Arkansas and Sodomy
W. BROCK THOMPSON

The Big Three of Late–Twentieth Century Arkansas Politics: Dale Bumpers, Bill Clinton, and David Pryor
DIANE D. BLAIR

Outsiders and the Amateur Legislature: A Case Study of Legislative Politics
ARTHUR ENGLISH AND JOHN J. CARROLL

PART IV:
Policy Issues and Political Patterns for the Twenty-first Century in Arkansas Politics and Government

Arkansas: More Signs of Momentum for Republicanism in Post-”Big Three” Arkansas
JAY BARTH

Arkansas: Still Swingin’ in 2004
JAY BARTH AND JANINE PARRY

Education Reform in Arkansas: Hitting a Moving Target
GARY R. RITTER