| Kentucky Politics and Government: Do We Stand United? Contributor(s): Miller, Penny M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803282060 ISBN-13: 9780803282063 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1994 Annotation: Penny M. Miller takes a comprehensive approach to Kentucky politics and government. She uses the details of the state's political institutions and processes, its policy issues, and its place in national politics to demonstrate the tension between Kentucky's forces of change and its inertia. Since the Civil War, geographic, economic, and cultural factional divisions have dominated the struggle for progress in the Bluegrass state. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - General - Political Science | American Government - General - Political Science | American Government - State |
| Dewey: 320.976 |
| LCCN: 93-23959 |
| Lexile Measure: 1520 |
| Series: Politics and Governments of the American States |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 6.12" W x 9.03" (1.56 lbs) 469 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Kentucky |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Penny M. Miller takes a comprehensive approach to Kentucky politics and government. She uses the details of the state's political institutions and processes, its policy issues, and its place in national politics to demonstrate the tension between Kentucky's forces of change and its inertia. Since the Civil War, geographic, economic, and cultural factional divisions have dominated the struggle for progress in the Bluegrass state. Yet Kentucky is in a state of change, and its political institutions have undergone significant transformations in the last few decades. Miller points out that the state's judicial system, long one of the nation's least-altered, has recently become one of its most innovative; the educational system has undergone radical legislative reformation, trying to escape its near last-place national ranking. The legislative branch has gained more independence and autonomy, and its relationship to the executive branch has experienced an enormous readjustment. The state has emerged from its past stereotypes of bourbon, fast horses, burley tobacco, and coal mines. Some things endure, though--political corruption, voter apathy, and an aged constitution. This book, the only comprehensive study of politics and government in Kentucky, illuminates contemporary problems within their historical context and suggests how the state's institutions, policies, politics, and people will formulate the future of Kentucky. |