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Author | : H. Edward Flentje |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0803220286 |
Download Kansas Politics and Government Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The rich history of Kansas politics continues to generate an abundant literature. The state?s beginning as ?Bleeding Kansas? followed by Prohibition, populism, the Progressive Era, and the Dust Bowl, through to the present day, have given local and national writers and scholars an intriguing topic for exploration. While historians and biographers shed light on pieces of this history, journalists focus on current political affairs in the state. Rarely, however, are past and present connected to fully illuminate an understanding of Kansas politics and government. ø This volume uses the prism of political cultures to interpret Kansas politics and disclose the intimate connections between the state?s past and its current politics. The framework of political cultures evolves from underlying political preferences for liberty, order, and equality, and these preferences form the basis for the active political cultures of individualism, hierarchy, and egalitarianism. This comprehensive examination of Kansas political institutions argues that Kansas politics, historically and presently, may best be understood as a clash of political cultures.
Author | : Thomas Frank |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2007-04-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1429900326 |
Download What's the Matter with Kansas? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he calls the "thirty-year backlash"—the populist revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment. The high point of that backlash is the Republican Party's success in building the most unnatural of alliances: between blue-collar Midwesterners and Wall Street business interests, workers and bosses, populists and right-wingers. In asking "what 's the matter with Kansas?"—how a place famous for its radicalism became one of the most conservative states in the union—Frank, a native Kansan and onetime Republican, seeks to answer some broader American riddles: Why do so many of us vote against our economic interests? Where's the outrage at corporate manipulators? And whatever happened to middle-American progressivism? The questions are urgent as well as provocative. Frank answers them by examining pop conservatism—the bestsellers, the radio talk shows, the vicious political combat—and showing how our long culture wars have left us with an electorate far more concerned with their leaders' "values" and down-home qualities than with their stands on hard questions of policy. A brilliant analysis—and funny to boot—What's the Matter with Kansas? presents a critical assessment of who we are, while telling a remarkable story of how a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs came to convince a nation that they spoke on behalf of the People. *Los Angeles Times
Author | : James Westbrook Drury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Andrew Theodore Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Kansas City (Mo.) |
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Download The Politics of Reform Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Robert Bartlett Harmon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Kansas |
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Author | : Burdett A. Loomis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Download Time, Politics, and Policies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Loomis observed the politics of policymaking in Kansas from May 1988 through May 1989. Using specific examples, he shows how deadlines occur in regular, predictable patterns in the development of issues in subsequent policy decisions and explains how they ultimately narrow the choices presented to any legislative body.
Author | : Robert Bartlett Harmon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Kansas |
ISBN | : 9780792006312 |
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Author | : Pearl Ponce |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2014-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1609091590 |
Download To Govern the Devil in Hell Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One hundred and fifty years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, we still find ourselves fascinated by the specter of "Bleeding Kansas" and the violence that preceded the American Civil War by five years. Although ample attention has been devoted to understanding why territorial violence broke out in Kansas in 1856, of equal concern but less illuminated is the question of why government, both local and national, allowed the violence to continue unstanched for so long. This question is fundamentally about governance-its existence, exercise, limits, and continuance-and its study has ramifications for understanding both Kansas events and why the American experiment in government failed in 1861. In addition, the book also sheds light on the nature of democracy, the challenges of implanting it in distant environs, the necessity of cooperation at the various levels of government, and the value of strong leadership. To Govern the Devil in Hell uses the prism of governance to investigate what went wrong in territorial Kansas. From the first elections in late 1854 and early 1855, local government was tarnished with cries of illegitimacy that territorial officials could not ameliorate. Soon after, a shadow government was created which further impeded local management of territorial challenges. Ultimately, this book addresses why Presidents Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan failed to act, what hindered Congress from stepping into the void, and why and how the lack of effective governance harmed Kansas and later the United States.
Author | : Michael A. Smith |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2024-07-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0700636625 |
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Originating under the leadership of the late Burdett Loomis, Reform and Reaction tells the complex story of recent Kansas politics, beginning in the 1960s and concluding with the reversal of Governor Sam Brownback’s red-state policies in the 2016 and 2018 elections. The Kansas that emerged from the reapportionment decisions and the overhaul of state government in the 1960s and 1970s was one that found itself in a push-and-pull, reform-and-reaction pattern the authors refer to as the arc of Kansas politics. Reform-minded and policy-oriented politicians who tended toward a moderate, bipartisan approach pushed to modernize the state to better serve the needs of its citizens, following the maxim of Governor Robert Docking: “austere but adequate.” Because this approach avoided or rejected the narrow conservative interests of culture warriors, reformist administrations were followed by reactionary administrations that advanced a right-wing agenda. Brownback thus brought the era of “austere but adequate” to an abrupt end when he won the governorship in 2010. When voters became tired of this approach, a new set of reform politicians were elected—and so the arc continues. The only book tracing changes in Kansas government since the 1960s, including the loss of moderates in both parties, the Brownback era, and its aftermath, Reform and Reaction is the last book by the celebrated political scientist Burdett Loomis, who conceived the idea for the book and authored one of its chapters before his passing. Reform and Reaction not only illuminates the political history of Kansas but also sheds light on what may be in store for the future of the Sunflower State.