CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
I. Foundations and Context in Arkansas Politics and Government
Political Culture, Political Attitudes, and Aggregated Demographic Effects
The Proposed Arkansas Constitution of 1970
Intelligible, Honest, and Impartial Democracy
The Antievolution Law
Low Villains and Wickedness in High Places
A Place at the Table
II. Policymaking Institutions in Arkansas Politics and Government
“The Great Negro State of the Country”?
Term Limits in Arkansas
Arkansas Governors in the Twentieth Century
A Practitioner’s Guide to Arkansas’s New Judicial Article
History, Political Culture, and Constitutional Reform in Arkansas
III. Practicing Politics in Arkansas Politics and Government
Orval E. Faubus
Noblesse Oblige and Practical Politics
The Arkansas Electorate
“What Women Wanted”
A Crime Unfit to Be Named
The Big Three of Late-Twentieth-Century Arkansas Politics
Outsiders and the Amateur Legislature
IV. Policy Issues and Political Patterns for the Twenty-first Century in Arkansas Politics and Government
Arkansas
Arkansas: Still Swingin’ in 2004
Education Reform in Arkansas
NOTES
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX