Author: Richard A. Brisbin, Jr. Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496227301 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 484
Book Description
"Combining new empirical information about political behavior with a close examination of the capacity of the state's government, this third edition of West Virginia Politics and Government offers a comprehensive and pointed study of the ability of the state's government to respond to the needs of a largely rural and relatively low-income population"--
Author: Richard A. Brisbin Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
With one of the weakest economies in the nation and a college attendance level lowest among the states, West Virginia has recently concentrated resources on combating its isolation from eastern markets and improving the quality of its public schools. The authors explore how West Virginians cope with these problems—compounded by the state’s relatively high rates of occupational injury, teenage pregnancy, maternal health problems, heart disease, lung disease, and cancer—and how they choose to govern and be governed while seeking solutions. The authors argue that West Virginia’s political system is affected by institutional rules, roles, and processes conditioned by the availability of economic resources. They examine the state’s historical, political, judicial, and cultural practices, illuminating the policy consequences of limited institutional capacity on the economy, education, the environment, and healthcare.
Author: Gary Jackson Tucker Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 234
Book Description
Governor William Glasscock and Progressive Politics in West Virginia recounts the life and work of West Virginia's thirteenth governor. Born during the Civil War, Glasscock witnessed a country torn by sectional, fratricidal war become a powerful industrial nation by the turn of the twentieth century.
Author: Allen H. Loughry Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 664
Book Description
"Allen Loughry's meticulously documented book on the bribe-soaked history of West Virginia is sordid, spellbinding, and mortifying but ultimately uplifting in the author's conviction that real change in West Virginia is practical and possible. The book is filled with not only outrage but common sense and an attitude that the reader comes to recognize as a patriotic love of this wild, wonderful and deeply corrupt state. Loughry has written an indispensable and irreplaceable book."--Book Jacket.
Author: Richard A. Brisbin, Jr.
Author: Richard A. Brisbin, Jr.
Author: Richard A. Brisbin
Author: Richard Ellsworth Fast
Author: Virgil Anson Lewis
Author: James R. Forrester
Author: Gary Jackson Tucker
Author: Robert Bartlett Harmon
Author: Virgil Anson Lewis
Author: Allen H. Loughry