[Ebook PDF] Governing Texas, 4th Edition

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[Ebook PDF] Governing Texas, 4th Edition

Authors: by Anthony Champagne (Author), Edward J. Harpham (Author), Jason P. Casellas (Author)

The #1 text for thinking critically about the past, present, and future of Texas politics The most trusted source for comprehensive coverage. The text gets students to think critically about recent political controversies. Students will analyze public opinion data with new “What Do Texans Think?” features. And a new chapter, “Building the Future: Public Policies for a Changing Texas,” asks students to grapple with the big issues that will shape the future of Texas political life: education, immigration, transportation, and water. This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.

PREFACE
Our goal in this text is to offer readers a broad understanding of the factors that are reshaping political processes and institutions in the Lone Star State in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. We are particularly concerned with explaining how the principles underlying constitutional government in Texas are being reworked in the face of new political, economic, and demographic changes. By supplementing our institutional analysis with concrete examples from everyday political life in Texas, we hope to show the reader that politics and government in Texas are not only important to their lives but endlessly fascinating as well.
Features of the Fourth Edition
Another, related goal of the book is to provide students with extensive pedagogical support throughout each chapter. In every chapter, several features engage students’ interest and help them master the learning objectives for the topic.
• NEW Chapter 14: Building the Future: Public Policies for a Changing Texas presents more coverage of critical policies: immigration, transportation, higher education, and water supply. As Texas continues to grow, these issues will no doubt take center stage. The authors unpack the controversies around these policies and ask students to think critically about what Texas will look like in the future.
• NEW “What Do Texans Think?” features in every chapter highlight fascinating public opinion data in Texas. The features allow students to compare their opinions on major issues to people across the state and the nation. Accompanying PowerPoint slides make it easy for instructors to poll their own classrooms on hot button topics in Texas government and politics.
• Updated “What Government Does and Why It Matters” chapter introductions draw students into the chapter by showing them why they should care about the chapter’s topic.
• Chapter Goals appear at the start of the chapter and then recur at the start of the relevant sections throughout the chapter to create a more focused, active reading experience.
• Core Objectives are woven into every chapter, helping students gain pro – ficiency with critical thinking, effective communication, personal and social responsibility, and quantitative reasoning.
• Updated “Who Are Texans?” infographics engage visually oriented students with a “statistical snapshot” of the state related to each chapter’s topic. Through accompanying quantitative reasoning questions, these features help students grasp the political implications of demographic, political, economic, and regional diversity in Texas. Related exercises in the online coursepacks and slides in the instructor PowerPoints make it easy for instructors to bring these graphics into their online or face-to-face classrooms.
Updated “Texas and the Nation” infographics enable students to compare Texas’s government and politics to other states’. Critical thinking questions accompany each “Texas and the Nation” graphic and encourage students to engage deeply with the graphics and draw their own conclusions. Related exercises in the online coursepacks and slides in the PowerPoints make it easy for instructors to
bring these graphics into their online or face-to-face classrooms.
• Revised “You Decide: Voices of Texas” boxes in every chapter address controversial issues in Texas politics that students care about. These boxes encourage students to think beyond their knee-jerk reactions, consider all sides of the debate, and think about communicating their own effective arguments.
• “Future of Texas” sections at the end of every chapter examine how Texas government and politics are likely to change in light of Texas’s shifting demographics and economy.
• Extensive end-of-chapter review sections organized around Chapter Goals include section outlines, practice quiz questions, and key terms. Students have everything they need to master the material in each section of the chapter.
Revisions to the Fourth Edition
In the fourth edition of Governing Texas, we have tried to provide students with the most up-to-date account of  Texas government and politics. Every chapter was scrutinized with help from dozens of outside reviewers, and we have tried to provide the most current examples and data throughout the text. Highlights of the new edition include:
• Chapter 1 (The Political Culture, People, and Economy of Texas) has been fully updated with the most recent available economic and demographic data. Material has also been added to help students understand the complexity of political culture in Texas and the impact of changing demographics in the state.
• Chapter 2 (The Texas Constitution) has been updated and refined to include more material on the Texas Founding and the transformation of the Texas Constitution.
• Chapter 3 (Texas in the Federal System) has been rewritten to discuss how federalism in Texas has evolved over time, including recent decisions in the Texas legislature.
• Chapter 4 (Political Parties) has been updated throughout with particular attention to the influence of the Tea Party in state Republican Party politics. The chapter also highlights the role of the Latino community in changing Texas and Democratic Party competition.
• Chapter 5 (Campaigns and Elections) includes a new opener highlighting the gubernatorial and senatorial races in 2018, emphasizing why students should care about what happens in elections. This chapter also includes a revamped and updated section on recent changes to electoral practices, including redistricting, voter ID litigation, and straight-ticket voting.
• Chapter 6 (Interest Groups and Lobbying) includes many updated examples and stories to highlight the changing role of interest groups in state politics, and devotes considerable attention to recent attempts at ethics reform.
Chapter 7 (The Legislature) begins with a new opener highlighting the escalating tension among legislators during the recent session of the Texas legislature. It includes updated data to reflect the changed composition of the legislature and Joe Straus’s speakership.
• Chapter 8 (The Executive Branch) has been significantly rewritten to take into account all the officials in the Executive Branch and recent executive actions during the 2017 legislative session. Comparisons are also made between the actions of current officials and those of previous ones—for example, between Governor Perry and Governor Abbott.
• Chapter 9 (The Judiciary) has been updated throughout, with new content added regarding judicial ethics and misconduct. It also discusses specialty courts, county courts, and how straight-ticket voting affects judicial elections.
• Chapter 10 (Local Government) has been significantly updated to account for changes in local governments and local officials. A new discussion of  home-rule cities and preemption is now included.
• Chapter 11 (Public Finance) has been fully updated with the data made available to political leaders for the 2017 legislative session. An enhanced discussion of the challenges of both budgetary surpluses and deficits is also included.
• Chapter 12 (Public Policy) has been fully updated. New discussions of the problems facing policy makers in education and health care have been added focusing on the importance of recent court decisions. Explicit linkages have also been made between theories of the policy-making process and the substantive policy areas. A new graphic has been added investigating de facto segregation at the local level in the state.
• Chapter 13 (Crime, Corrections, and Public Safety) has been extensively revised to include more on policing in Texas—including controversies around alleged racial profiling and police brutality—and open carry laws. The chapter opens with the story of the tragic Dallas police shooting.
• NEW Chapter 14 (Building the Future: Public Policies for a Changing Texas) includes new content on policy areas like transportation, higher education, immigration, and water resources in Texas.
We believe that these changes will assist professors in teaching students the nuts and bolts of  Texas government and politics, as well as the broad themes and issues that will shape the Lone Star State in the coming decades.