PART I
Foundations and Context in Arkansas Politics and Government
1. The Antievolution Law: Church and State in Arkansas – Cal Ledbetter, Jr.
2. Low Villains and Wickedness in High Places: Race and Class in the Elaine Race Riots – Jeannie M. Whayne
3. A Place at the Table: Hot Springs and the GI Revolt – Patsy Hawthorn Ramsey
4. The Arkansas Electorate – Jim Ranchino
5. Arkansas: Trump is a Natural for the Natural State – Jay Barth and Janine A. Parry
PART II
Institutions and Actors in Arkansas Politics and Government
6. “The Great Negro State of the Country”? Black Legislators in Arkansas, 1973–2000 – Janine A. Parry and William H. Miller
7. Term Limits in Arkansas: Opportunities and Consequences – Art English
8. Orval E. Faubus: Out of Socialism into Realism – Roy Reed
9. Noblesse Oblige and Practical Politics: Winthrop Rockefeller and the Civil Rights Movement – Cathy Kunzinger Urwin
10. The Big Three of Late Twentieth-Century Arkansas Politics: Dale Bumpers, Bill Clinton, and David Pryor – Diane D. Blair
11. The Evolution of Judicial Selection in Arkansas: External and Internal Explanations of Change and Potential Future Directions – Mark Nabors and J. R. Baxter
12. A Practitioner’s Guide to Arkansas’s New Judicial Article – Larry Brady and J. D. Gingerich
13. The Natural State in a Time of Change: A Survey-Based Analysis of State Party Organizations in Arkansas, 1999–2013 – John C. Davis
14. The Arkansas State Budget Process: A Unique and Reliable Approach – Kim U. Hoffman and Catherine C. Reese
PART III
Public Policy Conflicts in Arkansas Politics and Government
15. “Dedicated People”: Little Rock Central High School’s Teachers during the Integration Crisis of 1957–1958 – Graeme Cope
16. Going Off the Deep End: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Desegregation of Little Rock’s Public Swimming Pools – John A. Kirk
17. A Crime Unfit to Be Named: Arkansas and Sodomy – W. Brock Thompson
18. Keeping Hope Alive: A Case Study of the Continuing Argument for Ratification of the ERA – Lindsley Armstrong Smith and Stephen A. Smith
19. Effects of Prohibition in Arkansas Counties – Patrick A. Stewart, Catherine C. Reese, and Jeremy Brewer
20. Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Program in Arkansas: The Importance of Inter-Agency Communication – Catherine C. Reese and David Harding, Jr.
21. Making Progress?: Education Reform in Arkansas – Gary W. Ritter and Sarah C. Mckenzie