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Policy Making and Southern Distinctiveness

Policy Making and Southern Distinctiveness

Mayer, Martin K.
Kenter, Robert C.
Morris, John C.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Polic

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0367677334
ISBN13: 9780367677336
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 5 2021
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Policy Making and Southern Distinctiveness examines the uniqueness of southern politics and their policy choices.

While decades of scholarship on the politics of the American South have focused on partisanship and electoral outcomes as the primary elements of interest in southern politics, few works have focused on the more practical outcomes of these political processes, specifically, comparing state policy choices of southern states to non-southern states. This book examines six different policy arenas: voting access, gun control, health care, reproductive rights, water, and COVID-19 pandemic response, comparing policy choices in states in the South with states in the non-South. The authors find that the South is distinct in several, but not all, of the policy arenas examined. They conclude that the South as a region is unique because of the exceptional degree of one-party control evident in the South, coupled with a long-standing preoccupation with partisanship and race-based politics.

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