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Lone Star Tarnished

Texas pride, like everything else in the state, is larger than life. So, too, perhaps, are the states challenges. Lone Star Tarnished, Third Edition approaches public policy in the nations most populous red state from historical, comparative, and critical perspectives. The historical perspective provides the scope for asking how various policy domains have developed in Texas history, regularly reaching back to the states founding and with substantial data for the period 1950 to the present. In each chapter, Cal Jillson compares Texas public policy choices and results with those of other states and the United States in general. Finally, the critical perspective allows us to question the balance of benefits and costs attendant to what is often referred to as the Texas way or the Texas model. This is used best as a supplementary text for instructors of a course on Texas Politics who want to stress history, political culture, and public policy.

Jillson delves deeply into eight substantive policy chapters, covering the most important policy areas in which state governments are active. The third edition includes completely rewritten first and second chapters, as well as updates throughout the book and revised figures and tables. Also new to the third edition is a completely new chapter on higher education in Texas. Through Jillsons lively and lucid prose, students are well equipped to analyze how Texas has done and is doing compared to selected states and the national average over time and today. Readers will also come away with the necessary tools to assess the many claims of Texass exceptionalism.

New to the Third Edition

Highlights major new actors in Texas politics, including Governor Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, George P. Bush, and a higher-profile Ted Cruz.

Notes key policy developments in education, health care, transportation, energy, and more, resulting from the 2015 and 2017 legislative sessions and the arrival of the new Republican Trump administration in Washington.

Updates all tables and figures in the book, including a dozen new ones, assessing how Texas is doing in income, education, human services, transportation, energy, and the environment.

Includes an entirely new chapter on Higher Education in Texas.

Cal Jillson is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change; Texas Politics: Governing the Lone Star State; Congressional Dynamics; Constitution-Making: Conflict and Consensus in the Federal Convention of 1787; and The American Dream in History, Politics, and Fiction.

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Praise for the Third Edition

Texas and its government face significant, complex challenges. This revised and enhanced edition of Cal Jillsons Lone Star Tarnished not only affirms this but also helps us to understand these challenges with an engaging mosaic of history, data, and analysis, and encourages us to work for viable solutions. The new chapter on higher education is an excellent addition. This must-read book is an invitation to learn, to think critically, and to act, and I plan to continue to use it in my state government courses.

Eric V. Morrow,Tarleton State University

Lone Star Tarnished is an indispensable resource for students and faculty who want to get beyond the basics of understanding Texas government. Cal Jillson presents the often overlooked roots and development for how our current policies came to be. This eye-opening and unvarnished history enriches classroom discussions and provides a framework for understanding Texas public policy and the serious consequences and disparate impact on contemporary Texans.

Cindy Castaeda,Eastfield College

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Lone Star Tarnished

A Critical Look at Texas Politics and
Public Policy

Third Edition

Cal Jillson

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

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Published 2018
by Routledge
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The right of Cal Jillson to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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First edition published by Routledge 2012
Second edition published by Routledge 2015

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Names: Jillson, Calvin C., 1949- author.

Title: Lone star tarnished : a critical look at Texas politics and public policy / Cal Jillson, Southern Methodist University.

Description: Third edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017031660| ISBN 9781138562684 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138562691 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781315121208 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Political planningTexas. | TexasPolitics and government. | TexasSocial policy. | TexasEconomic policy.

Classification: LCC JK4849.P64 J55 2018 | DDC 320.9764dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017031660

ISBN: 978-1-138-56268-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-56269-1 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-12120-8 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK

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Remembering
Old Sam Jacinto and Mr. Sam

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Figures

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Tables

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Lone Star Tarnished describes how the Texas political culture, the Texas way of thinking about and practicing politics, shapes the states politics and public policy. This book is intended for use in Texas Politics courses in the states colleges and universities, but it is not a standard textbook. Lone Star Tarnished is designed to be used in conjunction with a basic text, which will cover political processes and institutions, in courses that want more coverage of Texas political culture, history, and public policy. Blushing only slightly, I suggest my own text, Texas Politics: Governing the Lone Star State. Though these books were written for a college audience, Texas politics junkies of any age are, of course, welcome.

Most of Lone Star Tarnished is dedicated to describing the meaning of the Texas way and tracing its impact on Texas public policy in separate chapters on jobs, income, and poverty, public education, higher education, health care and social services, crime and punishment, transportation, energy and the environment, and tax policy. The thesis of this book is that Texas is in thrall to a myth that blinds it to social and economic changes that threaten its future. We begin with the irrefutable point that there is a romantic reading of Texas history in which most Anglo Texans revel. The myth is that Texas has always been and remains big, bold, open, and vibrant and that these attributes assure dynamism, growth, and prosperity. In Texas history, the defenders of freedom at the Alamo and San Jacinto and the planters, ranchers, wildcatters, and high-tech entrepreneurs who followed in their wake are the exemplars.

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