Chapter Bibliographies: Books, Articles, and Research Reports

Use this bibliography as a resource for further reading and research.

jump to a section Ch 1 The Environment of Texas PoliticsCh 2 Federalism and the Texas ConstitutionCh 3 Local GovernmentsCh 4 The Politics of Elections and PartiesCh 5 The Politics of Interest GroupsCh 6 The LegislatureCh 7 The ExecutiveCh 8 Public Policy and AdministrationCh 9 Laws, Courts, and JusticeCh 10 Revenues, Expenditures, and Fiscal Policy

Chapter 1: The Environment of Texas Politics

Barnes, Marian E. Black Texans: They Overcame. Austin: Eakin Press, 1996.
Belfiglio, Valentine J. The Italian Experience in Texas. Austin: Eakin Press, 1995.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Smoke and Water." Texas Observer (20 August 2000): 8-13. Lignite mining and environmental politics in Texas.
Borges, Walt. "Seismic Shift: Higher Oil Prices Bring Mixed Blessings." Fiscal Notes (May 2000): 1, 12-13.
Buenger, Walter. The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas Between Reconstruction and the Great Depression. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2001.
Burka, Paul. "Our Number Is Up." Texas Monthly (October 2002): 8, 10, 12. Texas's population is becoming more Latino.
Calvert, Robert A.; Arnoldo De León; and Gregg Cantrell. The History of Texas. 3d ed. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2002.
Campbell, Randolph. Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Campos, Emmet. "On the Border." Fiscal Notes (April 2001): 7-9. Economic growth in Texas counties on or near the Rio Grande.
Cantrell, Gregg. Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999.
Carroll, Mark M. Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
Cashion, Ty, and Jesus F. de la Teja, eds. The Human Tradition in Texas. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2001. A collection of biographical essays.
Chabat, Jorge. "Mexico's War on Drugs: No Margin for Maneuver." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science No. 582 (July 2002): 134-148.
Chipman, Donald E., and Harriett Denise Joseph. Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Colloff, Pamela. "The Battle for the Border." Texas Monthly (April 2001): 96-103. Undocumented immigrants, drug smugglers, and violence in Maverick County on the Mexican border.
Davis, Graham. Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas. College Station: Texas A University Press, 2002.
De León, Arnoldo. Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief History. 2d ed. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1999.
Dingus, Anne. "Independence Day." Texas Monthly (June 2001): 64, 79, 81. Celebrating Juneteenth, an African-American holiday that originated in Texas and now is celebrated nationwide.
Donges, Kelli. Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants: Who Pays? Focus Report No. 77-13. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 29 October 2001.
Fehrenbach, T. R. Seven Keys to Texas. Rev. ed. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1986.
Flores, Richard R. Remembering the Alamo: Memory, Modernity, and the Master Symbol. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
González, Juan. A History of Latinos in America. New York: Viking, 2000.
Gonzalez, Manuel. Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Hart, John Mason, ed. Border Crossings: Mexican and Mexican-American Workers. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1998.
Haynes, Sam W., and Cary D. Wintz, eds. Major Problems in Texas History: Documents and Essays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
Hines, Barbara. "So Near Yet So Far Away: The Effect of September 11th on Mexican Immigrants in the United States." Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy (Spring 2002): 37-46.
"Hispanics in America 2000." Social Science Quarterly 81 (March 2000). Coedited by Jorge Durand, Douglas S. Massey, and Fernando Charver, this special issue is composed of 4 articles on migration, 3 on attitudes, 8 on politics, 11 on life cycle decisions, and 5 on health issues.
Jackson, Jack, ed., and John Wheat, trans. Texas by Terán: The Diary Kept by General Manuel de Mier y Terán on His 1828 Inspection of Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Jordan, Terry G., with John L. Bean, Jr., and William M. Holmes. Texas: A Geography. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1984.
Kearney, Milo, and Manuel Medrano. Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands. College Station: Texas A University Press, 2001. Traces important Hispanic and Anglo influences: linguistic, political and legal, economic and social, religious, and creative.
Kessell, John L. Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
Leber, Sandra Kill. "Biotechnology: Curse or Cure?" State Government News (January 2000): 23-26.
Madis, Franklin. The Taking of Texas: A Documentary History. Austin: Eakin Press, 2002.
Martinez, Oscar. Mexican Origin People in the United States: A Topical History. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. Emphasis on the post-World War II period.
Mason, W. Dale. "Tribes and States: A New Era in Intergovernmental Affairs." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 28 (Winter 1998): 111-130.
McGowen, Stanley S. "Battle or Massacre? The Incident on the Nueces, August 10, 1862." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 104 (July 2000): 65-86. A Civil War episode that has contributed to Republican voting strength in the Hill Country counties.
Menchaca, Martha. Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
Murdock, Steve H.; Steve White; Md. Nazrul Hoque; Beverly Pecotte; Xuihong You; and Jennifer Balkan. The Texas Challenge: Population Change and the Future of Texas. College Station: Texas A University Press, 2003.
Noff, Albert A. The Alamo and the Texas War for Independence: Heroes, Myths, and History. 2d ed. Da Capo Press, 2001.
Orrenius, Pia M. "Illegal Immigration and Enforcement Along the U.S.-Mexico Border: An Overview." Economic and Financial Review (First Quarter 2001): 2-11.
Piatt, Bill. Black and Brown in America: The Case for Cooperation. New York: New York University Press, 1997. The author teaches law at Texas Tech University.
The Portable Handbook of Texas. Edited by Roy R. Barkley and Mark F. Odintz. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2000. A one-volume consolidation of The New Handbook of Texas in six volumes.
Proctor, Ben, and Archie P. McDonald, eds. The Texas Heritage. 4th ed. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2003.
Reid, Jan. The Bullet Meant for Me. New York: Broadway Books, 2002. A Texas author's account of his near-fatal shooting in Mexico City and the long, agonizing road to recovery.
Reid, Jan. Close Calls: Jan Reid's Texas. College Station: Texas A University Press, 2000. A good take on Texas and Mexico, too, by a longtime Texas Monthly writer.
Richardson, Chad. Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados: Class and Culture on the South Texas Border. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Richardson, Rupert; Ernest Wallace; Gary D. Wintz; and Adrian N. Anderson. Texas: The Lone Star State. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Rosales, F. Arturo. ¡Pobre Raza! Violence, Justice, and Mobilization Among Mexico Lindo Immigrants, 1900-1936. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Rural Texas in Transition. Austin: Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, February 2001.
Schulze, Jeffrey M. "The Rediscovery of the Tiguas: Federal Recognition and Indianess in the Twentieth Century." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 105 (July 2001): 15-39.
Stout, Joseph A., Jr. Border Conflict: Villistas, Carrancistas, and the Punitive Expedition, 1915-1920. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1999.
Swartz, Mimi. "Good-bye to All That." Texas Monthly (June 2001): 104, 130-132. Austin's dot-com bust.
"Texas Timber Grows Up." Fiscal Notes (October 1999): 1, 12-13. About the industry that is the mainstay of the East Texas economy.
The Texians and the Texans. San Antonio: University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures, 1970-. A series of more than 20 booklets and books, each dealing with an ethnic group (Anglo Americans, African Americans, Chinese Texans, Mexican Texans, and so on).
Tijerina, Andrés.Tejanos and Texas Under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836. College Station: Texas A University Press, 1994.
Underwood, Rodman L. Death on the Nueces: German Texans, Treue der Union. Austin: Eakin Press, 2000. The story behind the Union monument at Comfort, Texas.
Vento, Arnoldo Carlos. Mestizo: The History, Culture and Politics of the Mexican and the Chicano?The Emerging Mestizo-Americans. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1997.
Vila, Pablo. Crossing Borders: Reinforcing Borders, Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.
Williams, David A. Bricks Without Straw: A Comprehensive History of African Americans in Texas. Austin: Eakin Press, 1997.
Wright, Bruce. "The Next Big Thing Is Very, Very Small." Fiscal Notes (April 2000): 7-9. About nanotechnology in Texas and its possibilities.
Zamora, Emilio; Cynthia Orozco; and Rodolfo Rocha, eds. Mexican Americans in Texas History: Selected Essays. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.




Chapter 2: Federalism and the Texas Constitution

Angell, Robert H. A Compilation and Analysis of the 1998 Texas Constitution and the Original 1876 Text. Studies in American History. Vol. 23. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.
Baum, Dale. The Shattering of Texas Unionism: Politics in the Lone Star State During the Civil War Era. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Covers the political background that produced Texas's three state constitutions in the 1860s.
Bowman, Ann O'M. "American Federalism on the Horizon." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 32 (Spring 2002): 3-22.
Braden, George D, et al. The Constitution of the State of Texas: An Annotated Comparative Analysis. 2 vols. Austin: Texas Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1977.
Brock, Ralph H. "`The Republic of Texas Is No More': An Answer to the Claim that Texas Was Unconstitutionally Annexed to the United States." Texas Tech Law Review 28:3(1997): 679-751. Addresses the claim of Richard Lance McLaren and others supporting the militia-influenced "Republic of Texas" actions of the 1990s.
Chen, Paul. "Federalism and Rights: A Neglected Relationship." South Texas Law Review 40 (Summer 1999): 845-879.
Cole, Richard L.; Rodney V. Hissong; and Enid Arvidson. "Devolution: Where Is the Revolution?" Publius: The Journal of Federalism 29 (Fall 1999): 99-112.
Comfort, Louise K. "Managing Intergovernmental Responses to Terrorism and Other Extreme Events." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 32 (Fall 2002): 29-50.
Constitutional Amendments Proposed for September 2003 Ballot. Focus Report No. 77-10. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 28 July 2003.
Dilger, Robert Jay. "The Study of American Federalism at the Turn of the Century." State and Local Government Review 32 (Spring 2000): 98-107.
Fink, Rob. "Hermine Tobolowsky, the Texas ELRA, and the Political Struggle for Women's Equal Rights." Journal of the West 42 (Summer 2003): 52-57.
Gantt, Fred, Jr. The Impact of the Texas Constitution on the Executive. Houston: Institute for Urban Studies, University of Houston, 1973.
Gardner, James A. "Devolution and the Paradox of Democratic Unresponsiveness." South Texas Law Review 40 (Summer 1999): 759-787.
Godon, Mark C. "Federalism in the 21st Century. State Government News (April 2003): 6-8, 34.
Greenhill, Joe R. "The Constitutional Amendment Giving Criminal Jurisdiction to the Texas Courts of Civil Appeals and Recognizing the Inherent Power of the Texas Supreme Court." Texas Tech Law Review. 33:2 (2002): 377-404. A former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas gives a step-by-step account of amending the state constitution.
Greve, Michael S. "Federalism's Frontier." Texas Review of Law & Politics 7 (Fall 2002): 93-126.
Grunwald, Michael. "Devolution: Congress Doesn't Walk the Walk." State Legislatures (January 2000): 32-34.
Halbrook, Stephen P. "The Right to Bear Arms in Texas: The Intent of the Framers of the Bill of Rights." Baylor Law Review 41 (December 1989): 629-688.
Harrington, James C. The Texas Bill of Rights: In the Mainstream of the Movement to Protect Individual Rights?A Commentary and Litigation Manual. 2d ed. Carlsbad, Calif.: Butterworth Legal Publishers, 1994.
Hine, Darlene Clark. Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003.
Jewett, Clayton E. Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.
Krane, Dale A. "The State of American Federalism, 2001-2002: Resistance in Response to Crisis." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 32 (Fall 2002): 1-28.
McKay, Seth S. Debates in the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1875. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1930.
McKay, Seth S. Making the Texas Constitution of 1876. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1924.
McKay, Seth S. Seven Decades of the Texas Constitution of 1876. Lubbock: Printed by the author, 1942.
May, Janice C. The Texas Constitutional Revision Experience in the '70s. Austin: Sterling Swift, 1975.
May, Janice C. "Texas Constitutional Revision: Lessons and Laments." National Civic Review 66 (February 1977): 64-69.
Mooney, Christopher Z. "The Decline of Federalism and the Rise of Morality-Policy Conflict in the United States." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 32 (Winter/Spring 2002): 171-188.
Ranney, Joseph A. "A Fool's Errand: Legal Legacies of Reconstruction in Two Southern States." Texas Wesleyan Law Review 9 (Fall 2002): 1-58. Texas and North Carolina compared.
Tarr, G. Alan. Understanding State Constitutions. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Tubbesing, Carl. "Federalism's Ups and Downs." State Legislatures (February 2002): 12-17. After years of devolution, there are pressures for centralization.
Vernon's Annotated Constitution of the State of Texas. 3 vols. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 1955. Vol. 3 contains texts of the early constitutions and organic laws of Texas.
Ward, Peter M. Intergovernmental Relations Between Texas and Mexico. Austin: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, 1999.
Ward, Peter M., and Victoria E. Rodriguez. New Federalism and State Government in Mexico: Bringing the State Back In. U.S. Mexican Policy Report No. 9. Austin: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, 1999.
Zimmerman, Joseph F. "Cooperative Federalism in the Twentieth Century." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 31 (Spring 2001): 15-30.




Chapter 3: Local Governments

Allston, Rick. "Why Lawyers Now Run Dallas." D (May 2003): 102-104.
Anderson, Julie. "Booster Shot: Win-Win Health Legislation Benefits Counties and Clients." County Progress (March 2000): 8-12.
Anderson, Julie. "Budget Builders: County Auditors Offer Tips on Maximizing Revenue Sources." County Progress (May 2000): 8-10.
"Annual Property Tax Report: Tax Year 2001." Texas County Progress (May 2003): 10-14. Based on the Comptroller's Annual Property Tax Report, it provides total appraised value, general revenue tax rate, general tax levy, etc., for Texas counties.
Atkinson, Jim. "Brave New 'Burbs." Texas Monthly (September 2003): 50, 52, 54, 56, 58. A look at Collin County and rapidly growing Frisco, in Republican country.
Atkinson, Jim. "Curing the Colonias." Texas Monthly (April 2001): 70, 72, 79.
Balli, Cecilia. "Twins Peak." Texas Monthly (October 2002): 100-103, 153, 155-158. Twin brothers, Julian and Joaquin Castro, and their mother, Rosie, in San Antonio politics.
Blodgett, Terrell. City Government that Works: The History of Council-Manager Government in Texas. Austin: Texas City Management Association, 1998.
Bojorquez, Alan J. "Effective Use of Citizen Advisory Boards." Texas Town & City (July 2003): 12-14.
Borges, Walt. "Playoff Payoff." Fiscal Notes (June 2000): 1, 7-9. How public money has been used to construct stadiums for professional athletic teams in Texas cities.
Brueckner, Jan K. "Urban Sprawl: Diagnosis and Remedy." Texas Town & City (February 2000): 13-19.
Buntin, John. "Long Journey to Work." Governing (March 2001): 26-28. About improving mass transit.
Burka, Paul. "Sizzle and Stakes." Texas Monthly (September 2003): 8, 12, 14. Challenges facing Laura Miller, mayor of Dallas.
Burka, Paul. "Stealing Home." Texas Observer (2 May 1997): 6-12. About the city of Arlington, the Texas Rangers' Ballpark, and George W. Bush.
Campos, Emmet. "Sizing up the Snowbirds." Fiscal Notes (May 2001): 1, 8-9. The impact of northerners who escape ice and snow by wintering in South Texas.
Clark, John E. The Fall of the Duke of Duval: A Prosecutor's Journal. Austin: Eakin Press, 1995. How George Parr, a corrupt Duval County politician, was brought to justice.
Cole, Jeff. "Educating the Community." Fiscal Notes (October 1998): 3-4. Explains the importance of public community/junior colleges in Texas.
Colloff, Pamela. "Not-So-Loving County." Texas Monthly (October 1997): 138-139, 156, 158. About the people and politics of Texas's least populated county.
Colloff, Pamela. "They Haven't Got a Prayer." Texas Monthly (November 2000): 116-121, 151-152, 154, 156-157, 159-160. Religion in the public schools in the Gulf Coast town of Santa Fe.
Conte, Christopher. "Boss Thy Neighbor." Governing (April 2001): 38-42. What some homeowners' associations are doing.
Cooper, Christopher A. "Citizen Groups in Big City Politics." State and Local Government Review 35 (Spring 2003): 102-111.
Davis, Mike. Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City. New York: Verso, 2000. Davis contends that Latinoization revitalizes urban areas, and he applauds development of the United States as a "majority minority" country.
Dickson, James G. Politics of the Texas Sheriff: From Frontier to Bureaucracy. Boston: American Press, 1983.
Dodson, Laurie. "What's in the Municipal General Fund?" Texas Town & City (May 2000): 10-11. Based on survey data provided by more than 600 Texas cities, this report shows that about 29 percent of general fund revenue comes from sales taxes and 29 percent from property taxes; other taxes produce less than 10 percent each.
Fairbanks, Robert M. For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics, and Public Interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. Provides good background for understanding big city issues in the twentieth century.
Fisher, Lewis F. Balcones Heights: A Crossroads of San Antonio. San Antonio: Maverick Publishing Co., 1999. The history of a Texas bedroom community.
Fowler, Jimmy. "The Two Faces of Laura Miller." D (May 2003): 84-89. About the mayor elected by Dallas voters in 2002.
Garcia, Mario T. The Making of a Mexican American Mayor: Raymond L. Telles of El Paso. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1998.
Goodson, John J. Annexation Vexation. Session Focus No. 75-3. Austin: House Research Organization. Texas House of Representatives, 13 January 1997.
Graves, Patrick K. Property Tax Appraisal: Issues and Responses. Focus Report No. 77-23. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 5 August 2002.
Greiner, Ron. "Municipal Financing Tools." Texas Town & City (October 2002): 10-13.
Gwinn, David M. "Redistricting in 2001 and Beyond: Navigating the Narrow Channel Between the Equal Protection Clause and the Voting Rights Act." Baylor Law Review 51 (Spring 1999): 225-267. Local government redistricting.
Gwynne, S.C. "Ray's Quarry." Texas Monthly (August 2002): 38, 40, 42, 44-45. A report on Raymond C. Caballero, populist mayor of El Paso
Hart, Patricia Kilday. "Race of Races." Texas Monthly (September 2002): 82, 84,86, 92, 94. Speculation on who will succeed Mayor Lee Brown in Houston.
Hatley, Allen G. Texas Constables: A Frontier Heritage. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1999.
Houston, Scott N. "What Is a `Meeting' Under the Texas Open Meetings Act?" Texas Town & City (June 2003): 18-19.
Joslove, Scott. "What Cities Need to Know to Administer the Local Hotel Occupancy Tax." Texas Town & City (April 2001): 10-16.
Katz, James B.; P. Edward French; and Hazel Prentice-Cooper. "City Council Conflict as a Cause of Psychological Burnout and Voluntary Turnover of City Managers." State and Local Government Review 31 (Fall 1999): 162-172.
Kellar, William Henry. Make Haste Slowly: Moderates, Conservatives, and School Desegregation in Houston. College Station: Texas A University Press, 1999.
Lewis, Jim "Bridges to the Future Getting Shorter." County (July/August 2000): 18-22. Texas needs to repair 12,000 bridges.
Malouf, Mary Brown. "Welcome to Boomtown." D (March 2003): 78-85. Frisco, located north of Dallas, is Texas's fastest growing city.
Mann, Dave. "Buffaloed on the Bayou: Revitalization Meets Real Estate Speculation in Houston." Texas Observer(6 December 2002): 4-7, 16-17. Criticism of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, a public-private non-profit foundation with a redevelopment plan for property along 10 miles of waterway between Shepherd Drive and the Houston Ship Channel.
Marshall, John B. "Council-Manager Relationships: Making the Team Work." Texas Town & City (June 2000): 26-27.
McCabe, Barbara Coyle. "Special District Formation Among the States." State and Local Government Review 32 (Spring 2000): 121-131.
McDonald, John F. "Houston Remains Unzoned." Land Economics 71 (February 1995): 137-140.
McGill, Adam. "Topless Bars and Bottom Lines." D (April 2003): 88-93. City politics and the convention business in Dallas.
McLain, Lewis F. "The Basics of Budgeting for Newly Elected Officials." Texas Town & City (July 2003): 6-7, 25-26.
Miller, Char, ed. On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.
Miller, Laura. "How I Learned to Hate the Media and Love Politics (Well, Sort of)." Texas Monthly (March 2001): 134-135, 195-200. Experiences of a former journalist (and wife of a Texas legislator), who was elected to the Dallas city council in 1998 and to the office of mayor in 2002.
Mindiola, Tacho, Jr.; Yolanda Flores; and Nestor Rodriguez. Black-Brown Relations and Stereotypes. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. A study of relations between African Americans and Latinos in Houston.
Mossburger, Karin. "State-Federal Diffusion and Policy Learning: From Enterprise Zones to Empowerment Zones." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 29 (Summer 1999): 31-50.
Nathan, Debbie. "El Mayor vs. Los Good Old Boys." Texas Observer (11 April 2003): 4-5, 17-19, 26-28. Mayor Ray Caballero and El Paso politics.
"New Regionalism and Its Policy Agenda: A Symposium." State and Local Government Review 32 (Fall 2000): 198-237. Seven articles on city-county consolidation and related topics.
Olsson, Karen. "Clean Government." Texas Observer (17 August 2001): 12-13. A journalist reports on El Cenizo, the South Texas town where women run the municipal government and Spanish is the official language.
Pasternak, Scott, and Dave Yanke. "Municipal Solid Waste Management in Texas: A Decade of Change?" Texas Town & City (July 2003): 18-23.
Pfeifer, Ken. "The Evolving Role of the City Manager." Texas Town & City (November 2002): 22-23, 27.
Phillips, Travis. Do Counties Need New Powers to Cope with Urban Sprawl? Focus Report No. 77-26. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 6 November 2002.
Prince, Daniel N. "The Constitutional Standard for Zoning Cases under the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act." Forum on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 6 (Winter 2002): 365-400.
Quandt, Dan. "Sports: The Business of the Game." Texas Town & City (April 2001): 32-34.
"Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Dallas: How the Rise of the New Middle Class Will Change Dallas Forever." A 30-page special report in D (January 2003).
Resendez, Adriana. "The Spanish Predominant Language Ordinance: Is Spanish on the Way In and English on the Way Out?" St. Mary's Law Journal 32:2 (2001): 317-362. Concerning action by the city council in the Texas border town of Cenizo making Spanish its official language.
Rosales, Rodolfo. The Illusion of Inclusion: The Untold Political Story of San Antonio. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. The Chicano community and municipal politics, 1951-1991.
Shands, Mike. "Three Mistakes of Government." Texas Town & City (July 2000): 13-16. The mistakes are: assuming that change is progress, government should be run like a business, and red tape and bureaucracy are always bad.
Siciliano, Cathy. On Deck: Financing Sports Facilities in Texas. Session Focus No. 75-10. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 12 March 1997.
Sitton, Thad. The Texas Sheriff: Lord of the County Line. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.
Somma, Mark; Scott Nikolai; and Tracy Skopek. "Attitudes toward Economic Development and the Environment: A Comparison of Two West Texas Cities." State and Local Government Review 11 (Spring 1999): 135-146. The cities are Lubbock and Amarillo.
Spong, John. "Mike Moses." Texas Monthly (June 2002): 50. Superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District.
Taebel, Del; Rod Hissong; and Theresa M. Daniel. "The Public Financing of Professional Sports Arenas: Who Should Pay and Who Benefits?" Texas Journal of Political Studies 21 (June 1999): 51-64. Attitudes of voters in three North Texas cities: Arlington, Grand Prairie, and Dallas.
"Terrorism: Are We Prepared?" County (January/February 2002): 31-42. A special section on disaster relief and preparedness.
Thomas, Robert D., and Richard W. Murray. Progrowth Politics: Change and Governance in Houston. Berkeley, Calif.: PGS Press, 1991.
Turner, John P. "Public Management in the U.S.-Mexican Border Region: Toward Increased Cooperation Between Texas and Mexican Officials." State and Local Government Review 35 (Winter 2003): 38-47.
"2003 Annual TML Taxation and Debt Survey." Texas Town & City (March 2003): 16-30. Data for population, total assessed valuation, gross tax rate, bond indebtedness, and certificates of obligation for Texas cities from Houston (population 1,953,631) to Quintana (population 47).
Wagner, Pam. "Olympic-sized Pool." Fiscal Notes (May 2001): 5-7. TxPool is the state-sponsored investment fund for counties, cities, and special districts.
Wolff, Nelson W. Mayor: An Inside View of San Antonio Politics,1981-1995. San Antonio: San Antonio Express-News, 1997. The author served as mayor of San Antonio from 1991 to 1995.
Zars, Belle. "Ed Garza Takes the Pot." Texas Observer (28 September 2001): 6-8. About San Antonio's mayor.




Chapter 4: The Politics of Elections and Parties

Adler, Bill. "The Law West of the Pecos." Texas Observer (25 August 2000): 4-6, 15. An account of a contested-election court proceeding involving the primary race for nominating the Democratic candidate for the office of district attorney for the 83rd state judicial district in West Texas.
Atherton, Christopher, et al. "Preparing for a Career in Politics, Public Affairs." Campaigns & Elections (December 2002/January 2003): 79-82.
Barr, Rita. "Voting on the Internet: Promise and Problems." Interim News. House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives (10 March 2000): 1-5.
Beiler, David. "The Eyes of America Were Upon Him." Campaigns & Elections. (July 1999): 48-53. How Rick Perry won the race for the office of lieutenant governor of Texas in 1998.
Bernstein, Jake. "Shut Out." Texas Observer (22 November 2002): 4-7, 18-20. Dimensions of the Texas Democratic Party's defeat in November 2002.
Black, Earl, and Merle. The Rise of Southern Republicanism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Blakeslee, Nate, "The Donkey Kicks." Texas Observer (5 July 2002): 4-7. A report on the Democratic party's state convention in El Paso in 2002.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Growing Pains." Texas Observer (22 November 2002): 8-10, 28-29. The party did poorly in Texas without Ralph Nader on the ballot in 2002.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Have Republicans Lost the Fire?" Texas Observer (2 March 2001): 4-5. Concerning factionalism within the Texas Republican Party.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Looking for Dems in Fort Worth." Texas Observer (7 July 2000): 13-14. A report on the 2000 state convention of the Texas Democratic Party.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Naked Emperors and Wet Rats." Texas Observer (15 February 2002): 4-7, 20. About the impact of Enron money on Texas politics.
Blakeslee, Nate. "The Republicans Are Coming." Texas Observer (4 December 1998): 6-7, 23. How the "Republican Revolution" of 1998 rolled through Van Zandt County in East Texas.
Brichetto, Robert. "The Rise of Cumulative Voting." Texas Observer (28 July 1995): 6-10, 18. Cumulative voting helps minority candidates win some city and school district elections.
Bryce, Robert. "David Dewhurst-the Unlikeliest (and Oddest) Candidate." Texas Observer (11 October 2002): 4-6, 26-28. The land commissioner runs for lieutenant governor.
Bryce, Robert. "The Pols He Bought." Texas Observer (5 February, 1999): 11-12. How Dr. James Leininger's money helped elect Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry and Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander in 1998.
Bryson, Conrey. Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and the White Primary. Rev. ed. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1992.
Buchanan, Sidney. "From Conservative Republican to Liberal Democrat: A Political Journey." Houston Law Review 39 (Summer 2002): 447-462. A professor of constitutional law at the University of Houston Law Center describes his personal political transformation in a way that should make both Republicans and Democrats reconsider their political loyalties.
Burka, Paul; "Can Rick Perry Stand on His Own?" Texas Monthly (February 2002): 70-81, 113-115. An analysis of the Texas political scene nine months before the November 2002 election.
Burka, Paul. "Karl Rove: Mastering the Mystery of Politics." Texas Monthly (September 2000): 150-151, 174, 176. The political strategist behind George W. Bush.
Burka, Paul. "Left Out." Texas Monthly (November 2002): 8, 9, 10. On the late Billie Carr and the decline of liberal Democrats in Texas.
Carrington, Paul O. "Big Money in Texas Judicial Elections: The Sickness and Its Remedies." SMU Law Review 53 (Winter 2000): 263-275.
Clements, Rita. "How to Be a Political Spouse." Texas Monthly (July 2003): 88-89. The wife of a former Texas governor writes from experience.
Cox, Patrick. Ralph W. Yarborough: The People's Senator. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
Crawford, Ann Fears. Frankie: Mrs. R. D. Randolph and Texas Liberal Politics. Austin: Eakin Press, 2000. Biography of the founder of the Texas Observer and wheelhorse among Democratic movers and shakers from 1950 to the 1970s.
Davidson, Chandler. Race and Class in Texas Politics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Davidson, Chandler, and Bernard Grofman, eds. Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act,1965-1990. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Dubose, Louis. "Observing Moderation." Texas Observer (31 March 2000): 4-5. About factional strife within the Republican Party of Texas.
Dubose, Louis. "Running Down the Ballot." Texas Observer (4 December 1998): 4-5. How Garry Mauro and other Democratic candidates went down to defeat in 1998.
Dupre, Brian, and Buddy Gill. "Advice for First Time Campaign Managers." Campaigns & Elections (June 2003): 30-31.
Faucheux, Ron. "Hitting the Bull's Eye." Campaigns & Elections (July 1999): 20-22, 24-25. Use of targeting and database management to win votes and save campaign money in local and district races.
Fisch, Louise Ann. All Rise: Reynaldo G. Garcia, the First Mexican American Federal Judge. College Station: Texas A University Press, 1996. Biography of a South Texan who rose to the top in Texas Democratic and legal circles.
García, Ignacio. Chicanismo: The Forging of a Militant Ethos among Mexican Americans. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997.
Garcia, Ignacio. United We Win: The Rise and Fall of La Raza Unida Party. Tucson: Mexican American Studies and Research Center at the University of Arizona, 1989.
Garcia, Ignacio. Viva Kennedy: Mexican Americans in Search of Camelot. College Station: Texas A University Press, 2000. Viva Kennedy clubs mobilized Mexican-American voters in the 1960s.
The Gated Community: How Texas Incumbents Locked Out Challengers in 1998. Austin: Texans for Public Justice, April 1999. How Texas House incumbents exploit their fundraising advantages to keep their seats in the Texas Legislature.
The Governor's Gusher: The Sources of George W. Bush's $41 Million Texas War Chest. Austin: Texans for Public Justice, January 2000. Identifies the big contributors.
Green, George Norris. The Establishment in Texas Politics: The Primitive Years, 1938-1957. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Greenblatt, Alan. "The Mapmaking Mess." Governing (January 2001): 20-23. About redistricting politics.
Greenblatt, Alan. "Where Campaign Money Flows." Governing (November 2002): 44, 46. Financing attorneys general campaigns in Texas and elsewhere.
Greer, Meg McKain. Grassroots Women: A Memoir of the Texas Republican Party. Boerne, Tex.: Winscape Press, 2001. A compilation of memoirs based on interviews with more than 200 GOP activists in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Gross, Kenneth. "The New Campaign Finance Act In a Nutshell." Campaigns & Elections (July 2002): 22, 24-26.
Gurwitt, Rob. "Southern Discomfort." Governing (October 2002): 32-34, 36. Republicans take charge of state legislatures.
Gutierrez, José Angel. The Making of a Chicano Militant: Lessons from Cristal. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. Authored by a founder of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) and the Raza Unida Party (RUP).
Gwynne, S.C. "Genius." Texas Monthly (March 2003): 82-87, 112-119. The record of the political adviser who guided George W. Bush to the Governor's Mansion and to the White House.
Hall, Michael. "Death Isn't Fair." Texas Monthly (December 2002): 122-128, 162, 164, 166-167. Injustice of Texas Justice?
Hart, Patricia Kilday. "Mr. Happy Man Goes to Washington." Texas Monthly (August 2002): 78-81, 98-101. Profile of Ron Kirk, mayor of Dallas and Democratic candidate for U.S. senator in 2002.
Hightower, Jim. If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
Hodges, Ed. The Wins of Change: The Republican Tide in Texas. Dallas: Pinnacle Press, 1999. A pro-Republican account of how the GOP became the majority party in Texas.
Hogan, Robert E. "Campaign Spending in State Legislative Primary Elections." State and Local Government Review 31 (Fall 1999): 214-220. Based on data from Texas and 12 other states.
Hollandsworth, Skip. "Facing the Music." Texas Monthly (March 2003): 45, 48, 52, 57-58. How Dan Morales's brother Michael attempted to blackmail Tony Sanchez's gubernatorial campaign.
Humphrey, P.A. "Johnson County Jihad." Texas Observer (20 April 2001): 8-9, 19. GOP factionalism in a Texas county.
Jalonik, Mary Clare. "Money vs. Manpower in Houston Primary." Campaigns & Elections (August 2000): 20-23, 25-28. About the nomination of Republican John Culberson as candidate for the District 7 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
King, Michael, and Louis Dubose. "The Power of Positive Thinkers." Texas Observer (7 July 2000): 8-13. A report on the 2000 state convention of the Texas Republican Party.
Kingston, Mike; Sam Attlesey; and Mary G. Crawford. The Texas Almanac's Political History of Texas. Austin: Eakin Press, 1992. Includes county voting results for all primaries and general elections from 1845 to 1990.
Lemieux, Dotty E. "Ten Common Mistakes Novice Candidates Make." Campaigns & Elections (June 2003): 37-39.
Lomis, Alexander P., ed. Southern Politics in the 1990s. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.
McKinnon, Mark. "How to Sell a Candidate." Texas Monthly (July 2003): 64, 66-67. A Texas political consultant tells how to win voter support.
Montjoy, John J. "Growing in Power." State Government News (March 2000): 10-14. How Hispanics are flexing their muscles in state governments.
Morris, Celia. Storming the Statehouse: Running for Governor with Ann Richards and Dianne Feinstein. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992.
Nash, Phil Tajitsu. "Reaching Out to Asian Americans and Latinos." Campaigns & Elections (February 2003): 40-41. Using web sites and languages other than English.
Nathan, Debbie. "Saint Sickbed." Texas Observer (22 January, 1999): 8-13. Campaign financing by Dr. James Leininger, who has made millions from his high-tech hospital beds.
Nordlinger, Gary. "Early Voting: How It's Changing Campaign Strategies, Timing and Costs." Campaigns & Elections (June 2003): 27-29.
Olasky, Marvin. Compassionate Conservatism: What It Is, What It Does, and How It Can Transform America. New York: Free Press, 2000.
Olsson, Karen. "General Hollowell's Last Stand." Texas Observer (8 December 2000): 6-7. Describes the hand recount for an East Texas Republican and veteran legislator, Bill Hollowell of Grand Saline.
Olsson, Karen. "Mr. Right." Texas Monthly (November 2002): 124-127, 206-207, 209-215. About Dr. James Leininger, whose financial backing has helped to elect several Texas Republicans.
Patoski, Joe Nick. "Liberalism Lives." Texas Monthly (July 2001): 62, 64-65. Profiles of the liberal Texas Observer and its coeditors.
Rapoport, Bernard. Being Rapoport: Capitalist with a Conscience, as told to Don Carleton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. The life of the founder of American Income Life Insurance Company, who has bankrolled many liberal causes and political campaigns.
Rausch, John David, Jr. "Big Money in the Lone Star State: The Absence of Campaign Finance Regulation and Politics in Texas." In Money, Politics, and Campaign Finance Reform Law in the States. Edited by David Schultz. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2002.
Reavis, Dick, Jr. "Taste for Trouble." Texas Monthly (January 2001): 64, 66-68. Life and death of Mario Cantu, a San Antonio restaurateur and political activist.
Richards, Ann. Straight from the Heart: My Life in Politics and Other Places. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
Richards, Dave. Once Upon a Time: A Liberal in the Lone Star State. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Autobiography of a civil libertarian, activist lawyer.
Russell, Jan Jarboe. "Church and Statecraft." Texas Observer (August 2002): 58-61. Religious views of two gubernatorial candidates: Tony Sanchez and Rick Perry.
Sanchez, Tony. "How to Be a Good Loser." Texas Monthly (July 2003): 90-91. Testimony of the Democratic Party's losing gubernatorial candidate in 2002.
Skaggs, David. "Winning with Young Voters." Campaigns & Elections (August 2002): 22, 24-27.
Smith, Oron. The Rise of Baptist Republicanism. New York: New York University Press, 1997. This study of religion and politics chronicles the development of close relations between the G.O.P. and the Southern Baptist Convention.
Swartz, Mimi. "'Truckin.'" Texas Monthly (June 1996): 96-100, 118, 120. Profile of Victor Morales, the schoolteacher who drove a white pickup throughout Texas in this first unsuccessful campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Tolleson-Rinehart, Sue, and Jeanie R. Stanley. Claytie and the Lady: Ann Richards, Gender, and Politics in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Trujillo, Armando L. Chicano Empowerment and Bilingual Education: Movimiento Politics in Crystal City, Texas. New York: Garland, 1998.
West, Darrell M. How Money Corrupts Political Campaigns. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000.




Chapter 5: The Politics of Interest Groups

Blakeslee, Nate. "Dapper Dan Strikes Again." Texas Observer (1 February 2002): 4-7. Dan Morales and campaign politics at the AFT-CIO COPE convention in Austin.
Carroll, Patrick. Felix Longoria's Wake: Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. How an incident at Three Rivers sparked the rise of the American G.I. Forum and the political mobilization of Mexican Americans.
Coombs, Kathryn, Mark Reilly, Ken Deutsch, and Robert Stone. "Grassroots Lobbying and the Internet Explosion." Campaigns & Elections (February 1999): 26-33.
Deacon, Mitch. "Targeting Exxon-Mobil." Texas Observer, (22 June 2001): 6-7. About environmental politics.
Dense, Jeff. "Whither State Lotteries? Fiscal Trends and Future Challenges." Comparative State Politics 20 (April 1999): 3-17.
Fowler, Sheri. "I'm a Believer." Texas Monthly (September 1995): 66, 68, 77-79. A former Texas Monthly assistant editor defends the Religious Right.
Goodwyn, Lawrence R. Texas Oil, American Dreams: A Study of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996.
Hines, Ayelet. "The Woman Who Slew Goliath." Texas Observer (5 February, 1999): 13-15. How Ellen Rogers organized opposition to locating a nuclear waste dump near Sierra Blanca in West Texas.
Klarner, Carl. "Business Interest Group Power, Mass Public Preferences, and State Public Policy." Comparative State Politics 20 (December 1999): 35-55.
Mann, Dave. "Business Lobby Death Match." Texas Observer (14 March 2003): 4-7. A battle in the 78th Legislature between Southwestern Bell and AT for control of high-speed Internet service (broadband).
Marquez, Benjamin. LULAC: The Evolution of a Mexican American Political Organization. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993.
Navarro, Armando. Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant Garde of the Chicano Movement in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Olsson, Karen. "Exorcising Disney. Texas Observer (28 August 1998): 7-9. How the Texas arm of the American Family Association applied political pressure to Texas's State Board of Education but was opposed by the Texas Freedom Network.
Pitre, Merline. In Struggle against Jim Crow: Lulu White and the NAACP, 1900-1957. College Station: Texas A University Press, 1999.
Pycior, Julie Leininger. LBJ and Mexican Americans: The Paradox of Power. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
Quiroz, Anthony. "Class and Consensus: Twentieth Century Mexican American Ideology in Victoria, Texas." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 106 (July 2002): 33-54. Describes the role of LULAC and other organizations at the grassroots level.
Rogers, Mary Beth. Cold Anger: A Story of Faith and Power Politics. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1990. About the work of community organizer Ernesto Cortes, the Industrial Areas Foundation, and COPS.
San Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr. Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston. College Station: Texas A University Press, 2001.
Sturzl, Frank. "The Texas Municipal League's Legislative Program for 2003." Texas Town & City (January 2003): 12-20.
"Testifying Before the Texas Legislature: An Important Part of the Process." Texas Town & City (January 2001): 24-27. Tips for local officials and staff who testify before House and Senate committees.
"The Texas Legislature: The Texas Municipal League Program [for the 77th Legislative Session, 2001]. Texas Town & City (January 2001): 10-15.
Texas PACs: A Roundup of the Special Interests Driving Texas' Political Action Committees. Austin: Texans for Public Justice, October 1998. Draws the big picture and identifies major business PACs, labor PACs, and ideological and single-issue PACs.
Texas Revolvers: Public Officials Recast as Hired Guns. Austin: Texans for Public Justice, February 1999. Lobbying by former Texas officials.
Vining, Karla. "What Is the TML?" Texas Town & City (June 2003): 20-22. Describes the organization and explains the operation of the Texas Municipal League, which lobbies for Texas cities.
Vining, Karla, and Shanna Igo. "Keys to Developing Effective Legislative Relationships." Texas Town & City (October 2000): 10-12. About getting to know legislators.
Wheat, Andrew. "The Lobby Reinvents Government." Texas Observer (6 December 2002): 13. Former Texas lobbyists take high public office.




Chapter 6: The Legislature

Bernstein, Jake. "The Hammer Drops." Texas Observer (18 July 2003): 4-7, 19-20. The Texas House approves a congressional redistricting bill in the 78th Legislature's first called session.
Bernstein, Jake. "Meet the New School." Texas Observer (31 January 2003): 4-7. Profiles of some freshman in the 78th Legislature.
Bernstein, Jake. "Remember the Holiday Inn!" Texas Observer (6 June 2003): 4-6, 8-9, 19-20. The flight of Democratic representatives to Oklahoma kills congressional redistricting at the end of the 78th regular session of the Texas Legislature.
Bernstein, Jake, and Dave Mann. "The Rise of the Machine." Texas Observer (29 August 2003): 4-11, 19-20. Describes the impact of corporate money on the 78th Legislature and congressional redistricting.
Bickerstaff, Steve. "Effects of the Voting Rights Act on Reapportionment and Hispanic Voting Strength in Texas. Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy 6 (Summer 2001): 99-122.
Blakeslee, Nate. "How a Bill Becomes a Law." Texas Observer (11 June 1999): 11-12, 22. A case study of legislative politics and an attempt to strengthen state control over air-polluting industries.
Brandon, Heather. Parental Involvement in Minors' Abortion Decisions. Focus Report No. 76-11. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 30 April 1999. An excellent study of a hot-button issue faced by the 76th Legislature.
Burka, Paul. "Altered State." Texas Monthly (July 2003): 6, 10, 12. Texas politics changed after the Texas Legislature's 78th regular session.
Burka, Paul. "Can't Hardly Wait." Texas Monthly (June 2003): 10, 12, 14. Preparing to name the best and the worst members of the 78th Texas Legislature.
Burka, Paul. "Map Quest." Texas Monthly (July 2003): 56. On the importance of congressional redistricting in Texas.
Burka, Paul. "So Far, So Bad." Texas Monthly (May 2003): 6, 10, 12. A preliminary assessment of the work of the 78th Texas Legislature.
Canon, David T. "Electoral Systems and the Representation of Minority Interests in Legislatures." Legislative Studies Quarterly 24 (August 1999): 331-385.
Council, John. "Two Texas Legislators' Approaches to Tort Reform." Texas Lawyer (16 June 2003): 1, 22. About the work of Representatives Joe Nixon (R-Houston) and Craig Eiland (D-Galveston).
Deaton, Charles. The Year They Threw the Rascals Out. Austin: Shoal Creek Press, 1973. Political results of the Sharpstown scandal.
"Drawing Lines in the Sand: The Texas Latino Community and Redistricting, 2001--Symposium." Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy. 6 (Summer 2001): 1-80.
Dubose, Louis. "When Texas Cares." Texas Observer (19 February 1999): 8-9. Enacting emergency legislation providing temporary tax relief for operators of oil-producing stripper wells.
Engstrom, Richard I. "The Post-2000 Round of Redistricting: An Entangled Thicket within the Federal System." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 32 (Fall 2002): 51-70.
Flores, Henry. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Texas Latinos and Redistricting in 2001." Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy 6 (Summer 2001): 137-146.
Garza, Jose. "History, Latinos, and Redistricting." Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy 6 (Summer 2001): 137-146.
Gurwitt, Rob. "Southern Discomfort." Governing (October 2002): 32, 34, 36. Republicans take charge of legislatures in southern states.
Hamm, Keith, and Robert Harmel. "Legislative Party Development and the Speaker System: The Case of the Texas House." Journal of Politics 55 (November 1993): 1140-1151.
Hanna, Betty Elliott. Ladies of the House: How to Survive as the Wife of a Texas Legislator. Austin: Eakin Press, 1993.
Hart, Patricia Kilday. "The Craddikal Right." Texas Monthly (March 2002): 58, 62, 64, 66. Speculation concerning Tom Craddick's prospects for becoming speaker of the House in 2003
Hogan, Robert E. "The Costs of Representation in State Legislatures: Explaining Variations in Campaign Spending." Social Science Quarterly 81 (December 2000): 941-956.
Hogan, Robert E. "Institutional and District-Level Sources of Competition in State Legislative Elections." Social Science Quarterly 84 (September 2003): 543-560. Data for Texas House and Senate elections in 1994 and 1996 were used in this study.
Ivins, Molly. Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? New York: Random House, 1991. The author, a liberal columnist, is the state's most outspoken critic of the Texas Legislature.
Ivins, Molly. "Redistricting! You're Gonna Laugh! We Promise!" Texas Observer (25 May 2001): 14, 16.
Ivins, Molly. "Roundup Ready: The 2001 Lege." Texas Observer (8 June 2001): 11-15.
Ivins, Molly. Nothin But Good Times Ahead. New York: Random House, 1993.
Keefe, William J., and Morris S. Ogul. The American Legislative Process: Congress and the States, 10th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2001.
Kubin, Jeffrey C. "The Case for Redistricting Commissions." Texas Law Review 75 (March 1997): 837-872.
Lewis, Fred. "Fixing a Hole." Texas Observer (29 August 2003): 12, 27. A plea for campaign finance reform in Texas.
Major Issues of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session. Focus Report No. 78-12. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 6 August 2003.
Markham, Douglas. "Another View." Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy 6 (Summer 2001): 149-160. This view is in opposition to districting for racial and ethnic representation.
McCarley, James. "Testifying Before the Legislature . . . An Important Part of the Process." Texas Town & City (February 1999): 18-21. Tips for local elected officials and appointed staff personnel when appearing before legislative committees.
McNeely, Dave. "Bringing Pride to the Texas House." Legislatures (July/August 2002): 22-24. About five-times House Speaker Pete Laney (D-Hale Center).
Moncrief, Gary F.; Peverill Squire; and Malcolm E. Jewell. Who Runs for the Legislature? Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Naishtat, Elliott. "Anxious in Ardmore: An Outlaw Diary." Texas Observer (6 June 2003): 5, 7. One Democratic representative's account of the flight to Oklahoma to kill congressional redistricting at the end of the Texas Legislature's 78th regular session.
Olsson, Karen. "Everything Is Coming Up Rodney." Texas Observer (8 June 2001): 7-10. An assessment of Senator Rodney Ellis's achievements as chair of the Senate Finance Committee, 77th Legislature.
Olsson, Karen. "Who Wants to Be a Legislator?" Texas Observer (19 January 2001): 8-10.
Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2002. Rev. ed. Austin: Texas Legislative Council, February 2002. Provides a brief account of the life and work of each speaker and each lieutenant governor during this period.
Rosenthal, Alan. The Decline of Representative Democracy: Process, Participation, and Power in State Legislatures. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1997.
Rosenthal, Alan; Burdett A. Loomis; John R. Hibbing; and Karl T. Kurtz. Republic on Trial: The Case for Representatives Democracy. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2002.
Rosenthal, Cindy Simon, and Lucinda Simon Rosenthal. When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Proctor, Rachel. "Your Right to Not Much." Texas Observer (20 June 2003): 4-7. Victories for anti-abortion forces in the 78th Legislature.
Sanbonmatsu, Kua. "Political Parties and Recruitment of Women in State Legislatures." Journal of Politics 64 (August 2002): 791-809.
Snare, Jonathan. "The Scope of the Powers and Responsibilities of the Texas Legislature in Redistricting and the Exploration of Alternatives to the Legislative Role." Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy 6 (Summer 2001): 83-97.
Spaw, Patsy, ed. The Texas Senate. Vol. 1: Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861. College Station: Texas A University Press, 1990.
Spaw, Patsy, ed. The Texas Senate. Vol. 2: Civil War to the Era of Reform, 1861-1889. College Station: Texas A University Press, 1999.
"Speaker's Interim Charges to House Committees." Interim News. No 77-2. House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives (16 November 2001): 7-9.
Spong, John. "The Hate Debate." Texas Monthly (April 2001): 64, 66-67. Concerning the controversial Hate Crimes Bill that became law in 2001.
Spong, John. "State Bar." Texas Monthly (July 2003): 110-113, 148-149. About "The Cloak Room," the Capitol's nearest bar, where legislators, staffers, and lobbyists get pickled.
Texas Monthly staff. "The Ten Best and the Ten Worst Legislators." Texas Monthly. Biennial feature following each regular session, beginning with the 63rd in 1973.
Wells, Hope E. "House State Affairs Committee Examines Broadband Internet Access Issues." Interim News. House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives (16 March 2000): 6-9.
Zaffirini, Judith. "Pom-pom and Circumstance." Texas Monthly (February 2003): 84, 86, 88. How cheerleading experience helped make a Texas legislator.




Chapter 7: The Executive

Bryce, Robert. "Nicotine Fit." Texas Observer (26 November 1999): 8-14. About Attorney General John Cornyn's efforts to prevent five trial lawyers from collecting a multibillion-dollar fee for successfully suing the big tobacco companies on behalf of the state.
Burka, Paul. "The Dominator." Texas Monthly (August 1999): 9, 12, 14. A postmortem assessment of the achievements of the late Bob Bullock.
DeBoer, Marvin E., ed. Destiny by Choice: The Inaugural Addresses of the Governors of Texas. Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press, 1992.
Dubose, Lou. "So What's the Truth about Dan Morales and Tobacco?" Texas Monthly (March 2002):90-93, 120. 122. A report on the tobacco settlement that netted $17 billion for Texas and problems for the state's attorney general.
Farbman, Anne. "Spying Is Back." Texas Observer (7 December 2001): 6-8. Controversy concerning the Governor's Task Force on Homeland Security.
Hart, Patricia Kilday. "Christmas Carole." Texas Monthly (December 2002): 80, 82, 84, 86. Concerning the comptroller's power to give the Texas Legislature a budget estimate.
Hendrickson, Kenneth E. The Chief Executive of Texas: From Stephen F. Austin to John B. Connally, Jr. College Station: Texas A University Press, 1995.
The Land Commissioners of Texas: 150 Years of the General Land Office. Austin: Texas General Land Office, 1986.
Mahtesian, Charles. "Veto-Happy." Governing (September 2000): 18, 20-22. Why governors are vetoing more bills across the country.
Mora, Sabina, ed. "Diversity on Trial: Grutter v. Bollinger--Symposium." Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 8 (Spring 2002): 7-34.
Murph, Dan. Texas Giant: The Life of Price Daniel. Austin: Eakin Press, 2002. Served in Texas government as governor, speaker of the House of Representatives, attorney general, and Supreme Court justice; and he held federal offices as U.S. senator and member of President Lyndon B. Johnson's cabinet.
Richards, Ann. "Ex Marks the Spot." Texas Monthly (February 2003): 64, 66-67. A former Texas governor tells about her life after leaving the Governor's Mansion.
Shropshire, Mike, and Frank Schaeffer. The Thorny Rose of Texas: An Intimate Portrait of Governor Ann Richards. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1994.
Soika, Kelli. The Prompt Payment Dispute. Focus Report No. 77-22. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 17 July 2002.
Spong, John. "Lone Star Cowboy." Texas Observer (June 2002): 108-111, 176, 203-205. Profile of Land Commissioner David Dewhurst, who was elected later as lieutenant governor.
Vetoes of Legislation, 78th Legislature. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas Legislature, 5 August 2003.




Chapter 8: Public Policy and Administration

Atkinson, Jim. "Bad Air Days." Texas Monthly (August 2003): 52, 54-57. Air pollution from the petro-chemical plants of the Golden Triangle in southeast Texas.
Atkinson, Jim. "Curing the Colonias." Texas Monthly (April 2001): 70, 72, 79. Health problems in impoverished settlements on the Mexican border.
Baker, Graham. "Radioactive Waste Business Kicks Up Dust in West Texas." County (March/April 2000): 14-18. Envirocare's proposal to build aboveground storage bunkers in Ward County.
Barr, Rita. "Higher Education Diversity After Hopwood." Interim News. No. 77-9. House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives (28 June 2002): 1-6.
Beal, Ronald L. Texas Administrative Practice and Procedure. Charlottesville, Va.: Michie, 1998.
Beam, Justin Wayne. "Cutting the Knot: The Use of ADR in Texas Agencies." Texas Tech Journal of Texas Administrative Law 3 (Spring 2002): 125-156. Alternative dispute resolution can be used to resolve administrative disputes.
Belfiglio, Valentine. Honor, Pride, Duty: A History of the Texas State Guard. Austin: Eakin Press, 1995.
Bernstein, Jake, "The Rights of a River." Texas Observer (21 June 2002): 4-7, 16-17, 28.Environmentalists make water claims on the Guadalupe River.
Bernstein, Jake. "Test Case." Texas Observer (30 August 2002): 4-7, 29, 32. About the TAAS, the TAKS, and Texas schools.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Burying the Opposition." Texas Observer (28 May 1999): 12-13. Why the Texas Funeral Service Commission has been at the center of a political storm.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Shell Game." Texas Observer (11 October 2002): 12-13, 29. Concerning the insurance crisis in Texas.
Bryce, Robert. "Bush in Contempt on Formaldegate?" Texas Observer (3 September 1999): 19. Did Governor Bush intervene in the Texas Funeral Service Commission's investigation of Service Corporation International, which is the world's largest funeral company?
Bryce, Robert. "Previews of a Funereal Summer Season." Texas Observer (19 June 2000): 21-22. Elizabeth May, an active Democrat, strikes back after being removed as director of the Texas Funeral Service Commission.
Burka, Paul. "Sinking Flagship." Texas Monthly (August 2002): 10, 11. A look at some of Texas's problems in state institutions of higher education.
Campos, Emmet. "Sizing Up the Snowbirds." Fiscal Notes (May 2001): 1, 8-9. "Winter Texans" are special tourists who bring their RVs and dollars to South Texas.
Carcieri, Martin D. "The Sixth Circuit and Grutter v. Bollinger: Diversity and Distortion." Texas Review of Law & Politics 7 (Fall 2002): 127-152.
Cardenas, José. Texas School Finance Reform: An INDRA Perspective. San Antonio: Intercultural Development Research Association, 1997.
Cardozier, V. R. University of Texas of the Permian Basin: A History. Austin: Eakin Press, 1998. Written by a former president of UTMB, this is a first-person account of Texas academic politics and administration.
Childress, Jennifer. "Commissioner of Education Decisions: The Year in Review." Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest 18 (November 2002): 1-6.
Cottrell, Debbie Mauldin. Pioneer Woman Educator: The Progressive Spirit of Annie Webb Blanton. College Station: Texas A University Press, 1993.
Cox, Mike. Stand-off in Texas: Just Call Me a Spokesman for the DPS. Austin: Eakin Press, 1998. The Texas Department of Public Safety's chief of media relations describes his work with mass media people covering the shootings at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen (1991), the Branch Davidian siege near Waco (1993), and the Republic of Texas stand-off in Jeff Davis County (1997).
Drummond, Dylan O. "Texas Groundwater Law in the Twenty-first Century: A Compendium of Historical Approaches, Current Problems, and Future Solutions Focusing on the High Plains Aquifer and the Panhandle." Texas Tech Journal of Administrative Law 4 (Summer 2003): 173-225. Has good maps.
Dworaczyk, Kellie. Standardizing Driver's Licenses: Security, Privacy, and Other Issues. Focus Report No. 77-20. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 31 May 2002.
Farmaian, Mahan. "Clean Air Compliance in Texas for 2001." In Brief (February 2001): 1-8.
Fitzpatrick, Brian T. "Strict Scrutiny of Facially Race-Neutral State Action and the Texas Ten Percent Plan." Baylor Law Review 53 (Spring 2001): 289-348. Argues that admitting the top 10 percent of high school graduates to the Texas state university of their choice is unconstitutional.
Flawn, Peter T. A Primer for University Presidents. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990. Based on the author's experience as president of the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Texas at Austin.
Fusaro, Peter L., and Ross M. Miller. What Went Wrong at Enron? Everyone's Guide to the Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
Governor Bush's Well-Appointed Texas Officials. Austin: Texans for Public Justice, October 2000. Campaign contributions and appointments to Texas state boards and commissions.
Gwynne, S.C. "How Good Is Your Kid's School?" Texas Monthly (November 2002): 120-123.
Harkins, D. Chris. "The Writing on the Wall . . . and Inside It: The Recent Explosion of Toxic Mold Litigation and the Insurance Industry Response." Texas Tech Law Review 33:4 (2002): 1101-1135.
Harman, Greg. "Huntsman's Odessa Syndrome." Texas Observer (21 September 2000): 6-10. Environmental problems and a West Texas city's petrochemical complex.
Hart, Patricia Kilday. "The Killing of Alydar." Texas Monthly (June 2001): 98-103, 124-129. How the death of a famous Kentucky racehorse was related to Houston's failed First City National Bank.
Ibarra, Robert A. Beyond Affirmative Action: Reframing the Context of Higher Education. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
Jepson, Dana. "Setting Rates for Texas Homeowners Insurance: Regulatory Options." Interim News. No. 77-6. House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives (25 March 2002): 1, 6-10.
Jepson, Dana. "Toxic Mold and Texas Homeowners Insurance." Interim News. No. 77-1. House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives (23 October 2001): 1-5.
Lauderdale, Michael. Reinventing State Government. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Description of how the Survey of Departmental Excellence was used by Governors White, Clements, Richards, and Bush to change the operation of state agencies.
Levin, Linda. "Texas Agencies Work Together to Promote Tourism." Texas Town & City (April 2001): 40-41.
Maniotis, Laurie. "Recent Developments Under the Texas Whistleblower Act.' Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest 19 (June 2003): 1-5, 15.
Mann, Dave. "Got Manure?" Texas Observer (19 July 2002): 12-13, 28-29. Expanding dairies and pollution of the Leon and Bosque rivers.
Mann, Dave. "Legislative Malpractice." Texas Observer (20 June 2003): 8-9, 20. Criticism of HB 2290, which reorganizes and consolidates Texas' state social service agencies.
Matthews, Joan M; Ronald G. Swanson; and Richard M. Kerker, eds. From Politics to Policy: A Case Study in Educational Reform. Westfield, Conn.: Praeger, 1991. How the Texas Academic Skills Program was formulated and implemented for the purpose of elevating the quality of higher education in the Lone Star State.
Mauro, Garry. Beaches, Bureaucrats, and Big Oil. Austin: Look Away Books, 1997.
May, Michael. "The One That Got Away." Texas Observer (8 November 2002): 4-5, 16-17, 20. Pollution by the Huntsman chemical facilities in Port Arthur and Port Neches.
May, Michael. "Port Arthur Blues." Texas Observer (1 March 2002): 8-11, 17, 18. One man's efforts to clean up refinery pollution.
McNeil, Linda, and Angela Valenzuela. "The Harmful Impact of the TAAS System of Testing in Texas: Beneath the Accountability Rhetoric." In Raising Standards or Raising Barriers? Inequality and High-Stakes Testing in Public Education, edited by Gary Orfield and Mindy L. Kornhaber, pp. 127-150. New York: The Century Foundation Press, 2001.
McWilliams, James. "History 101: Ignorance as Power." Texas Observer (30 August 2002): 8-9, 20. Criticism of Texas's approval process for school textbooks.
Meier, Kenneth, and Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha. "Economic and Social Regulation." In Virginia Gray and Russell Hanson. Politics in the American States, 8th ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2003.
Meyers, Marcia; Janet C. Gornick; and Laura R. Peck. "More, Less, or More of the Same? Trends in State Social Welfare Policy in the 1990s." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 32 (Fall 2002): 91-108.
Michelau, Desaarrée K., and David Shreve. "Education Reform From the Top Down." State Legislatures (December 2002): 21-25.
Mt. Joy, Greg. "Conservation Vacation." Fiscal Notes (June 2001): 1, 7-9. Nature-based tourism in Texas.
Mt. Joy, Greg. "Drop the Raise?" Fiscal Notes (September 2002): 4. The comptroller states that revenue is not available for raising the pay of state employees.
Mt. Joy, Greg. "Taming Technology."Fiscal Notes (October 2000): 6-7. The Texas Information Technology Academy trains high-tech workers who agree to take state jobs for at least two years.
Nelons, Roxanne D. "Texas Adventures in Robin Hood: Are We There Yet? Texas's Bumpy Ride to Providing an Equal Education." Thurgood Marshall Law Review 26 (Spring 2001): 221-242.
Nichols, Amy A. "Texas Opens for Business: An Analysis of Deregulation of the Electric Industry in Texas." Texas Tech Journal of Texas Administrative Law 3 (Spring 2002): 179-209.
Novak, Amber. "Up in Smoke." Texas Observer (23 May 2003): 4-7, 27, 31. Criticism of the legislative action weakening environmental protection in the 78th regular session of the Texas Legislature.
Olsson, Karen. "The View from Outside." Texas Observer (9 November 2001): 8-9, 13. Labor-management conflict at the IBP beef processing plant in Amarillo.
Olsson, Karen. "Wasted Days, Nuclear Nightmare." Texas Observer (30 March 2001): 12. Proposals for disposing of hazardous waste and nuclear waste.
Peña-Alfaro, Sylvia. "The Toxic Mold Terrifying Texas: Mold's Hold on the Insurance Industry." St. Mary's Law Journal 31:2 (2003): 541-562.
Perryman, Ray. "Tourism Plays a Vital Role in the Texas Economy." Texas Town & City (April 2003): 18-25.
Pollan, Thomas M. "Legislative Survey--Administrative Law." Texas Tech Journal of Texas Administrative Law. 3 (Spring 2002): 93-120. Survey of legislation concerning state agencies and open government that was enacted by the 77th Legislature in 2001.
Poole, Claire. "Mixing Oil and Politics." Texas Monthly (March 2001): 63-64, 69-70. An environmental pollution case involving Koch Industries' refineries in Texas.
Portales, Marco. "Hopwood, Race, Bakke, and the Constitution." The Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 4 (Spring 1998): 29-44.
Prindle, David F. Petroleum Politics and the Texas Railroad Commission. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
Purdy, R. Lawrence. "Prelude: Bakke Revisited." Texas Review of Law & Politics 7 (Spring 2003): 313-384.
Sattley, Melissa. "Boiling Point." Texas Observer (23 November 2001): 6-11. Water problems along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Scott, Natalie. "Implementation of Senate Bill 7: The Implication of Stranded Cost Recovery for Residential Electric Utility Consumers." Baylor Law Review 52 (Winter 2000): 237-264.
Shields, Clint. "Border Crossing." Fiscal Notes (August 2002): 8-9. Truck traffic across the U.S.-Mexican border.
State Functions at the Texas-Mexico Border and Cross-Border Transportation. Austin: Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, January 2001.
Staton, Suzanne, and Byron Schlomach. "Mixed Reviews." Fiscal Notes (December 2000): 7-9. Concerning charter schools.
Swartz. Mimi. "How Enron Blew It." Texas Monthly (November 2001): 136-139, 171-172, 174-178.
Sweany, Brian D. "The Cash Machine." Texas Monthly (June 2001): 52, 53-54. Coach Bobby Knight's impact on Texas Tech University.
Swope, Christopher. "Big Rigs and Beat-up Roads." Governing (July 1999): 28, 30. The high cost of truck transportation.
Tweedie, Jack. "Welfare Reform: Doing Well, Trying to Do Better." State Legislatures (January 2003): 28-31.
Tyer, Brad. "Department of Ranch Management." Texas Observer (15 March 2002): 6-11, 20. A critical look at the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife's programs for protecting wildlife and providing land for recreational use.
Tyer, Brad. "Fear and Closing in Big Bend." Texas Observer (19 July 2002): 4-7. The War on Terrorism has brought more Border Patrol activity and closing of "traditional" but illegal crossings for work and social activities.
Tyer, Brad. "Harris County Hijacking." Texas Observer (10 May 2002): 4-7, 18-19. Criticism of the Greater Houston Partnership's program for air pollution research.
Wagner, Pam. "Keeping Teachers Teaching." Fiscal Notes (April 2003): 12-13. The problem of teacher drop-out.
Ward, Peter M. Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Who's in Charge? Agency Governance Varies Widely. Focus Report No. 74-28. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, November 1996.
Wilson, Robert H., ed. Public Policy and Community: Activism and Governance in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Case studies that describe how low-income Texans have affected public policies concerning education finance and reform, environmental protection, local infrastructure, and indigent health care.
Wright, Bruce. "Doctors in the Valley." Fiscal Notes (July 2003): 1-10-11. There is a shortage of physicians in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.
Wright, JoAnn S. "Retire to Rehire: Making the System Work." Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest 19 (May 2003): 1-5. How retired teachers may be rehired without loss of pension.




Chapter 9: Laws, Courts, and Justice

Anderson, Ken. Crime in Texas: Your Complete Guide to the Criminal Justice System. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Written by the district attorney for Williamson County.
Ballí, Cecilia. "Return to Padre." Texas Monthly (January 2001): 98-101, 116, 162-165. About a Mexican American family's lawsuit involving land on Padre Island.
Berlow, Alan. "The Texas Clemency Memos." Atlantic Monthly (July/August 2003): 91-96. Based on 57 confidential death penalty memos from Legal Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales to Governor George W. Bush.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Bust Town." Texas Monthly (November 2002): 46-48, 50, 52, 56. The bust town is Tulia, Texas, where African Americans were convicted on the perjured testimony of a rogue law enforcement officer.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Color of Justice." Texas Observer (23 June 2000): 8-16. Drug busts and prosecution in the West Texas town of Tulia.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Free at Last?" Texas Observer (25 April 2003): 10-11. 18-19. Tentative settlement of the Tulia drug-bust case.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Just Build It." Texas Observer (16 February 2001): 6-7. Prison construction in Texas.
Blakeslee, Nate. "The Numbers Game." Texas Observer (26 October 2001): 6-17. A report on the federally funded, multijurisdictional Chambers County Narcotics Task Force.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Stonewalling the Victims." Texas Observer (25 August 2000): 12-14. Criticism of Texas's relocation program for battered women.
Boulard, Garry. "Leaving Prison Once and For All." State Legislatures (April 2002): 26-30. Combating recidivism.
Bowers, Allison. "Women at the University of Texas School of Law: A Call for Action." Texas Journal of Women and the Law 9 (2000): 117-165.
Brace, Paul; Melinda Gann Hall; and Laura Langer. "Placing State Supreme Courts in State Politics. State Politics & Policy Quarterly 1 (Spring 2001): 81-108.
Brooks, Christian. "Political Bluff and Bluster: Six Years Later, A Comment on the Texas Private Real Property Rights Preservation Act." Texas Tech Law Review 33:1 (2001): 59-103. Why this "strongest state takings law" has been ineffective.
Brown, Joyce Ann, with Jay Gaines. Joyce Ann Brown: Justice Denied. Chicago: Noble Press, 1990. An autobiographical account by a Texan who served more than nine years of a prison sentence for an aggravated robbery she did not commit.
Burris, Kelly L. "The Juvenile Justice System: How Community Programs Play a Role." Texas Bar Journal 66 (February 2003): 160-163.
Cartwright, Gary. "Free Greg Ott." Texas Monthly (August 2000): 132-135, 143-146. The author argues that a former graduate student at the University of North Texas should be paroled more than 20 years after he was convicted of killing a Texas Ranger during a drug bust.
Cartwright, Gary. "The Idealist." Texas Monthly (January 2003): 52, 56-57. The passing of Warren Burnett, a famous Texas trial lawyer from Odessa.
Castlebury, Glen. "Correctional Officer Recruitment and Retention in Texas." Corrections Today (June 2002): 80-83.
Castlebury, Glen. "High Profile Inmates: A Security Concern for Texas Prisons." Corrections Today (October 2001): 124-125, 129
Castlebury, Glen. "Texas' Youthful Offender Program." Corrections Today (October 2002): 102-106.
Checks & Imbalances: How Texas Supreme Court Justices Raised $11 Million. Austin: Texans for Public Justice, 2000. A study of campaign finance.
Cloyd, Frances Spears. "Facets of Texas Legal History." SMU Law Review 52 (Fall 1999): 1653-1681. Early influence, especially Spanish and Mexican, on an evolving legal system for Texas.
Collett, Teresa Stanton. "Seeking Solomon's Wisdom: Judicial Bypass of Parental Involvement in a Minor's Abortion." Baylor Law Review 52 (Summer 2000): 513-601.
Colloff, Pamela. "The Trick Is Not to Act Like a Lawyer," Texas Monthly (September 2002): 156-159, 215-218, 257. Profile of Rusty Hardin, one of Houston's top lawyers.
Colton, Milo. "What's Wrong with the Texas Bar Exam? A Minority Report." Thurgood Marshall Law Review 28 (Fall 2002): 53-74.
Connelly, Richard. "How Judges Discipline Their Own." Texas Lawyer (May 1997): 1, 33-34. Describes the functions of the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
Council, John. "Victims' Rights Bill Shocks Appellate Justices." Texas Lawyer (4 July 2001): 1, 28.
Davidson, Mark, and Kent Rutter. "The Making of a Justice: Joe Greenhill/Sarah T. Hughes Race for the Supreme Court." Texas Bar Journal 63 (November 2000): 961-967, 969.
Davis, Anita. "Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Charles Holcomb." Texas Bar Journal 66 (July 2003): 584-586.
Davis, Anita. "Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Clay Johnson." Texas Bar Journal 63 (November 2000): 970-973.
Dennis, David, and Mike Hoy. "Taking a Byte Out of Crime." Fiscal Notes (January 2000): 5-6. Prison inmates are trained to be computer technicians as they repair and assemble obsolete data processing equipment formerly used by state agencies and universities.
Dingus, Anne. "Dead Line." Texas Monthly (July 2002): 96-101. Notes on the history of homicide in Texas, 1687-2002.
"Divided Supreme Court Issues New Guidelines for Bypass of Parental Notification Mandate." Interim News. House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives (14 April 2000): 1-6.
Dubose, Lou. "Trial and Error." Texas Observer (25 April 2003): 4-5, 16-17, 28. A personal injury case goes to the Supreme Court of Texas.
Dworaczyk, Kellie. The Best Defense: Representing Indigent Defendants. Focus Report 76-18. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 22 November 1999.
Dworaczyk, Kellie. "Ruiz Litigation Update: Date Set for End of Federal Court Oversight." Interim News. No. 77-3. House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives (7 December 2001): 1, 7-8.
Dworaczyk, Kellie. SB 7 Update: How Counties Provide Indigent Defense. Focus Report No. 77-25. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 16 October 2002.
Fohmy, Hossam M. "Arbitration: Wiping out Consumers Rights?" Texas Bar Journal 64 (October 2001): 917-919.
Gibson, Mary Lou. "Juveniles Doing Time at a Cost." Fiscal Notes (May 1999): 4-7.
Glenn, Lou Bennett. Texas Prisons: The Largest Hotel Chain in Texas. Austin: Eakin Press, 2001. A veteran correctional officer and warden, the author is critical of federal court intervention that changed the Texas prison system.
Gutterman, Melvin. "Failure to Communicate: The Reel Prison Experience." SMU Law Review 55 (Fall 2002): 1515-1560. How films affect the public's perception of prison life.
Hall, Michael. "Death Isn't Fair." Texas Monthly (December 2002): 122-129, 162, 164, 166-167. Concerning Texa's capital punishment system.
Hardberger, Phil. "Juries Under Siege." St. Mary's Law Journal 30: 1 (1998): 1-142. The chief justice of the Court of Appeals for the Fourth District of Texas (San Antonio) looks critically at recent decisions by the Supreme Court of Texas in the areas of insurance, health care, government immunity, premises liability, and employment.
Hardwick, Lillian B. "Proceedings Before the Commission on Judicial Conduct." Texas Bar Journal 66 (Fall 2003): 115.
Hollandsworth, Skip. "Maybe Darlie Didn't Do It." Texas Monthly (July 2002): 91-96, 120-124. From a cell on death row, Darlie Routier insists that she did not kill two of her sons in their suburban home east of Dallas.
Hollandsworth, Skip. "Snow Job." Texas Monthly (April 2002): 44, 46-49. Illegal narcotics arrests and prosecutions involved in the Dallas Police Department's Sheetrock Scandal.
Holmes, John B., Jr. "Dealing Out Death." Texas Observer (July 2002): 68, 70, 71. A longtime district attorney for Harris County gives his views on capital punishment.
Kincheloe, Amy, "Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Barbara Hervey." Texas Bar Journal 66 (May 2003): 412-415.
Kincheloe, Amy. "Texas Supreme Court Justice Michael Schneider." Texas Bar Journal 66 (July 2003): 588-591.
King, Kelley Jones. "Texas Supreme Court Judge Deborah Hankinson: A Judicial Profile." Texas Bar Journal 64 (May 2001): 470-473.
Kinkeade, Edward. "Appellate Juvenile Justice in Texas? It's a Crime! Or Should Be." Baylor Law Review 51 (Autumn 1999): 17-61.
Kinsells, Chad, and Karen Fuller. "Community-based Supervision Dilemma." State Bar Journal (May 2003): 15-17.
Lavergne, Gary M. Bad Boy from Rosebud: The Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen McDuff. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1999. How the crimes of this sadistic murderer resulted in the "McDuff Law" that changed Texas's parole procedures.
Leggett, Vanessa. "Doing Time." Texas Monthly (July 2002): 52, 54, 56-57. A Houston writer describes her experiences during 169 days in jail for refusing to surrender notes for a book on an unsolved murder.
Leifker, Lynn. Should Texas Ban Execution of Mentally Retarded Offenders? Focus Report No. 77-8. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 19 March 2001.
Lewis, Anne S. "Disorder in the Courts." Texas Monthly (July 2000): 54-57. The author contends that Texas's legal profession is in decline.
Mackay, Jordan. "A Murder on Campus." Texas Monthly (January 2000): 112, 170-173. A fraternity party and murder call attention to the problem of binge drinking by some college and university students.
McClure, Ann Crawford; Richard Orsinger; and Robert H. Pemberton. "A Guide to Proceedings under the Texas Parental Notification Statute and Rules." South Texas Law Review 41 (Summer 2000): 755-872. About abortions for minors.
Michalek, Natalie Brown. "Littleton v. Prange: How Voiding Transsexual Marriage Affects the Fundamental Right of Marriage." Baylor Law Review 52 (Summer 2000): 727-752.
Morris, J. Scott. "The Texas Supreme Court and Strict Construction." Texas Bar Journal 63 (December 2000): 1042-1048, 1050-1051.
Olsson, Karen. "Out at Last." Texas Observer (2 February 2001): 8-9. The wrongful imprisonment of Christopher Ochoa.
Overby, Jeremy. "The Texas Department of Criminal Justice?Institutional Division: Controlling and Disciplining Society's Inmate Population." Texas Tech Journal of Administrative Law 4 (Summer 2003): 257-280.
Patoski, Joe Nick. "The Sweet Song of Justice." Texas Monthly (December 1995): 102, 105, 132, 134-136. A detailed account of the trial and conviction of Yolanda Saldivar for the murder of superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez, queen of Tejana music.
Pay to Play: How Big Money Buys Access to the Texas Supreme Court. Austin: Texans for Public Justice, 2001.
Perales, Donny J. "Rethinking the Prohibition of Death Row Prisoners as Organ Donors: A Possible Lifeline to Those on Organ Donor Waiting Lists." St. Mary's Law Journal 34: 3 (2003): 687-732.
Pickett, Carroll, with Carlton Stowers. Within These Walls: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. Provides details concerning the capital punishment process in Texas.
Priestner, Kevin. "Supreme Court of Texas Justice Wallace Jefferson." Texas Bar Journal 66 (May 2003): 404-407.
Rains, Jack. "First Person Account: The Jury." Texas Bar Journal 65 (June 2002): 524-528. A lawyer and former secretary of state of Texas writes about his experience as a juror.
Richardson-Stewart, Julie B. "One Full Bite of the Apple: Defining Competent Counsel in Texas Capital Post-Conviction Review." Texas Wesleyan Law Review 9 (Spring 2003): 221-254.
Ringel, Jonathan, and Mary Alice Robbins. "Court Upholds Arrest of Texan on Seat Belt Violation." Texas Lawyer (30 April 2001): 5, 31. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision concerning the arrest, handcuffing, and detention of a Lago Vista soccer mom.
Shields, Clint. "The Kids May Be All Right." Fiscal Notes (June 2003): 1, 6-7. Texas's juvenile crime rate has fallen since 1997.
Smith, Evan. "John O'Quinn Objects." Texas Monthly (June 2000): 117-118, 119. Based on an interview with one of Texas's most famous "big bucks" trial lawyers, this is a good reading for prelaw students.
Spong, John. "I, the Juror." Texas Monthly (April 2002): 62, 64, 69. A Texas lawyer tells about his experience as a juror.
Staton, Suzanne. "Doing Useful Time." Fiscal Notes (February 2002): 10-11. Work programs teach TDCJ inmates marketable skills.
Swartz, Mimi. "The Traitor Next Door." Texas Monthly (April 2002): 106-111, 144-148. The case of Wadih el-Hage, the Arlington resident with ties to Osama bin Laden.
Wagner, Pam. "Blackboards Behind Bars." Fiscal Notes (March 2001): 1, 8-9. Educational opportunities for Texas's prison inmates.
Wind, Dori A. "Texas' Big Secret: The Crime Victims' Compensation Fund." Texas Bar Journal 64 (April 2001): 303-369.




Chapter 10: Revenues, Expenditures, and Fiscal Policy

Bernstein, Jake. "The Numbers Game." Texas Observer (14 February 2003): 8, 19. On using the Legislative Budget Board's fiscal notes to kill a bill.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Brother, Can You Spare $800 Million?" Texas Observer (8 June 2001): 3, 15. Concerning property tax abatement to lure industry to Texas and what it will cost the state treasury.
Blakeslee, Nate. "Double Dipped: Did the 'World's Toughest Grandma' Throw a Fight?" Texas Observer (22 June 2001): 4-5, 29. About Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander and a tobacco tax.
Coburn, Karen Ann. "Tax Holidays: A Slippery Slope." Governing (November 2000): 70, 72. Examples from Texas and six other states.
Curtis, Gregory, and Paul Burka. "For an Income Tax." Texas Monthly (May 1997): 9, 12, 14.
Dense, Jeff. "Whither State Lotteries? Fiscal Trends and Future Challenges." Comparative State Politics 20 (April 1999): 3-17.
Dubose, Louis. "State of the State: Ben Barnes and the Surplus Next Time." Texas Observer (21 June 2000): 20-22. Based on an interview with former Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes concerning the subject of his much-publicized speech on state fiscal policy delivered at the LBJ School in mid-April 2000.
Eckl, Corina. "Beleaguered State Budgets." State Legislatures (May 2003): 16-17, 20.
Garand, James. "The Politics of Taxing." In Virginia Gray and Russell L. Hanson. Politics in the American States, 8th ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2003.
Graves, Patrick K. Taxing e-Commerce and Other Remote Sales: Choices for Texas. Focus Report No. 77-19. Austin: House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives, 9 April 2002.
Green, Tim. "The Book on Self-Audits." Fiscal Notes (June 2000): 5. Explains how companies with good taxpaying records are now allowed to audit themselves under the supervision of Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander's tax auditors.
Greenblatt, Alan. "Lucky Strike." Governing (October 2000): 42, 44-45. How the states are dividing tobacco settlement money.
Head, Amy. "The Death of the New Buffalo: The Fifth Circuit Stays Indian Gaming in Texas." Texas Tech Law Review 34 (2003): 377-424. Concerns casino operation on Native American reservations in Texas.
Hermann, Denise K. von. "Why States Gamble on Gambling Revenue: A Comparative Case Study Approach." Comparative State Politics 19 (October 1998): 33-46.
Howe, Edward T., and Donald J. Reeb. "The Historical Evolution of State and Local Tax Systems." Social Science Quarterly 78 (March 1997): 109-121.
Janes, Daryl. "Down the Back Stretch." Fiscal Notes (April 2000): 1, 12-13. Concerning Texas horse racing, betting, and state revenue.
Janes, Daryl. "Smaller and Better." Fiscal Notes (August 2000): 5-6. About Comptroller Rylander's Yellow Pages test, outsourcing, and privatizing functions of state government.
Jepson, Dana. "Taking Stock of School Finance Litigation." Interim News. No. 77-8. House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives (29 May 2002): 1-7.
Mahtesian, Charles. "The Lure of the Cards." Governing (June 1999): 28-30, 31. Issues raised by the spread of gambling throughout the states.
Mikesell, John. Fiscal Administration. 5th ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1999.
Reed, Douglas S. "Twenty-Five Years after Rodriguez: School Finance Litigation and the Impact of the New Judicial Federalism." Law and Society 32: 1 (1998): 175-220. How the decisions of state supreme courts have affected the distribution of funds for public education in Texas and seven other states since the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1973 that big financing inequalities among Texas school districts did not violate the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.
Soika, Kelli. "Securitizing Texas' Tobacco-Settlement Receipts." Interim News. No. 77-5. House Research Organization, Texas House of Representatives (4 February 2002): 1-4.
Staton, Suzanne. "Bottoms Up." Fiscal Notes (July 2002), 12-13. Revenue from the alcoholic beverage industry.
Staton, Suzanne. "Investing in the Future." Fiscal Notes (October 2002): 4-5. Tomorrow's College Investment Plan provides a way for families to invest for non-tuition costs of higher education.
Stuart, Elaine. "Internet Tax Freedom Costs States." State Government News (June/July 2000): 24-27.
Tomsec, Trinity D. "Managing Medicaid in Tough Times." State Legislatures (June 2002): 12-17.
Tubbesing, Carl. "A Blueprint for Streamlining Sales Taxes." State Legislatures (February 2003): 12-16.