Governing Texas / Edition 3

by Anthony Champagne, Edward J. Harpham, Jason P. Casellas

Overview

The #1 selling book for Texas government courses, with a new focus on the future of Texas politics.

Governing Texas is comprehensive, clear, and current. The Third Edition, with new coauthor Jason Casellas, builds on these strengths and has a new theme: the future of Texas. How is Texas changing? How will politics and government change with it? Governing Texas helps students think critically about these essential questions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393283679
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2017
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Anthony Champagne, Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Illinois, 1973, has research interests in judicial politics and in Congressional history. He is the author of Congressman Sam Rayburn, Sam Rayburn: A Bio-bibliography, and Judicial Politics in Texas: Partisanship, Money, and Politics in State Courts. He has won three University-wide teaching awards.

Edward J. Harpham is Associate Provost and Professor of Government and Political Economy at The University of Texas at Dallas. He also serves as the Director of Collegium V, UTD's honors program. He teaches courses in political theory, American government, and public policy. His research focuses upon the role that economic ideas play in modern political thought and their impact upon modern state institutions.

Jason Casellas, associate professor at the University of Houston, specializes in American politics, with specific research and teaching interests in Latino politics, legislative politics, and state and local politics. He is the author of Latino Representation in State Houses and Congress (New York: Cambridge University Press). He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, and he is a member of the Texas Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. His work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and other peer-reviewed journals.