This title has been replaced by Inside Texas Politics: Power, Policy, and Personality of the Lone Star State 4e, and its resources will no longer be available after 15 Jul 2025
This title has been replaced by Inside Texas Politics: Power, Policy, and Personality of the Lone Star State 4e, and its resources will no longer be available after 15 Jul 2025
Student Resources for Rottinghaus, Inside Texas Politics 3e, including:
This video outlines individualistic versus collective, but it most closely identifies with the key Texan values of an individualistic culture and the concurrent challenges.
Governor Greg Abbott affirms that Texas will not accept new refugees to be resettled, under discretion allowed by executive order from President Trump.
After winning the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 2014, Dan Patrick gives an off-the-cuff speech that illustrates the values and principles embedded in the Texas Constitution.
The U.S. Constitution is crucial to structuring the relationship between states as well as between states and the federal government, specifically the Supremacy Clause, the Full Faith and Credit Clause, and the Commerce Clause.
The Electoral College is explained, focusing on understanding the importance of Texas in the Electoral College as both a large state and one of the safest states for the two major parties.
The Supreme Court denied a petition to expand the ability to vote by mail in the state of Texas during the 2020 presidential election, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shifting electoral trends led the pre-election margin between Biden and Trump to be closer than almost anyone expected.
One of the most important regulators of the Texas energy industry, a commissioner from the Texas Railroad Commission, talks about regulating the energy industry through flaring permits.
The Governor of Texas Greg Abbott issued a state-wide mask order for any counties with 20 or more COVID-19 cases, illustrating the power of the office.
The pollutant of benzene from a pipeline in Dish, Texas, generates questions about the responsibility of the bureaucracy in regulating a powerful economic industry while also protecting its citizens.
The Texas Railroad Commission, a bureaucratic agency, considers forcing production limits on the oil and gas industry in respond to cratering demand as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
The broader role of state courts is contextualized, situating state courts as operating beneath the ultimate Supreme Court of the United States.
Texas Courts issue a stay of execution for Rodney Reed in light of new evidence.
The history of trial by jury, including its unique role in American politics, is contextualized by its declining use in the judicial system in modern politics.
COVID-19 affects Texas prisons disproportionately, more than any other prison system in the country, leading to questions about Texas prisons.
Financial pressures on the Hutto, Texas school district illustrate the challenges local governments in Texas face in providing service while managing debt.
One local government in Texas—the city of Austin—makes radical changes to its local policing strategy, flying in the face of politics and preferences at the state level.
From 2016, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar forecasts the economic growth of Texas (given new oil and gas revenue decisions), allowing us to compare what has happened in the last five years compared to what was forecast.
This video describes potential reforms to Medicaid funding, especially focusing on block grants and the difficulty in (cutting) funding to a program that helps fund medical care.
This video features an extended interview with House Representative Michael McCaul of Texas on Bloomberg in 2017 clarifying his expectations of border security after the 2016 presidential election.
Governor Abbott signed executive orders to provide instructions on how to report suspicious activity with regards to firearms, in response to mass shootings in Texas in 2019.
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