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Alabama Government and Politics

Alabama Government and Politics

Thomas, James D.
Stewart, William H.

Paperback

Series: Politics and Governments of the American States

General Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0803291817
ISBN13: 9780803291812
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Jul 1 1988
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
For most of the nation, Alabama government is emblemized by Governor George Wallace blocking the entry to the University of Alabama, defying court-ordered integration and championing states'-rights slogans. But Wallace's return to power in the 1980s witnessed sweeping social and political changes in Alabama. Today the state for the most part enjoys the aura of the new South. James D. Thomas and William H. Stewart, both natives of Alabama, bring a detailed sense of its colorful past to their forward-looking book about its government and political institutions.

In the course of writing about Alabama's legislative, administrative, and judiciary branches; its local politics; and its historic relations with the federal government, Thomas and Stewart reveal much about life today in this southern state. Low taxes, industrialization and urbanization, the civil rights movement, and a trend toward two-party politics have helped to usher in dramatic changes. Although continued change is in the wind, the authors do not think that Alabama's political institutions will soon lose their distinctive Alabama character, and no book has ever described that better than Alabama Government and Politics.

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