Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS JAY BARTH is the M. E. and Ima Graves Peace Distinguished Professor of Politics and director of civic engagement projects at Hendrix College. He is the coauthor (with the late Diane D. Blair) of the second edition of Arkansas Politics and Government: Do the People Rule? (University of Nebraska Press, ). His articles have appeared in such journals as American Politics Research, Political Research Quarterly, Political Psychology, Political Behavior, Women and Politics, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly. DIANE D. BLAIR studied and taught political science at the University of Arkansas for more than thirty years. She wrote Arkansas Politics and Government: Do the People Rule (now in a second edition with Jay Barth) and edited Silent Hattie Speaks: The Personal Journal of Senator Hattie Caraway, in addition to authoring and coauthoring dozens of scholarly journal articles and book chapters, mainly on the subjects of Arkansas politics and women in politics. Her public service also was considerable, including substantial contributions to the Arkansas Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women, the Arkansas Political Science Association, and the National Corporation for Public Broadcasting. LARRY BRADY is the research and court services director for the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Arkansas in  and his law degree from Washington University in . Prior to his service at the AOC he was in private practice in Little Rock. JOHN J. CARROLL is emeritus professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He has also taught at the University of Detroit and Providence College. His research interests include state government and constitutional processes, with a special emphasis on civil liberties. His work has appeared in a number of journals, among them Polity and Legislative Studies Quarterly. ART ENGLISH is a professor of political science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His research has appeared in Polity, Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Review of Politics, MidSouth Journal of Political Science, Arkansas Political Science Journal, State Legislatures, National Civic Review, and Spectrum. He has earned several university and community awards for public service. J. D. GINGERICH has served as the director of the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts since . He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Central Arkansas, his law degree from the University of Arkansas, and a postgraduate degree in international law from the University of Bristol in England. Prior to going to the AOC he served as chief legal counsel and professor of political science at UCA. CAL LEDBETTER is a professor emeritus in political science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He served five terms in the Arkansas House of Representatives and was a delegate and a vice president of the Arkansas Constitutional Convention of –. His research has focused on Arkansas governors and Arkansas constitutions, and he is the author of eighteen articles published in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Other articles have appeared in the Arkansas Law Review, Social Science Journal, Arkansas Political Science Journal, and National Civic Review. He has written a biography of Arkansas Governor George Donaghey entitled The Carpenter from Conway. ROBERT W. MERIWETHER is an emeritus professor of education, history, and political science at Hendrix College, where he taught from  to . In addition to authoring many scholarly publications, Meriwether served as an elected delegate to an Arkansas Constitutional Convention, a member of the state Ethics Commission and the state Board of Election Commissioners, and as a Justice of the Peace in Faulkner County, among other positions. He also directed the Arkansas Governor’s School from  to . WILLIAM H. MILLER is an associate professor of public administration, chair of the public administration program and director of the DPA program at the University of Illinois at Springfield. His research focuses on political and economic minorities and public policy analysis. His work has been published in Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, State and Local Government Review, and elsewhere. JANINE A. PARRY is associate professor of political science and director of the Arkansas Poll at the University of Arkansas. Her research on state politics, elections and participation, and gender and politics has appeared in Political Behavior, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, and many other outlets. PATSY HAWTHORN RAMSEY has a sociology degree from Ouachita Baptist University, a master’s in history from the University of Arkansas, and currently is working on an Ed. D. in higher education curriculum at the University of Arkansas at Little...