10/09/2024 Legislative Intern Senator Nathan Johnson State Legislature Senator Johnson's office is seeking interns for the 89th Legislative Session. The Legislative Intern will support the ...

Policy making is a cyclical process. It begins in the agenda setting stage with recognition and definition of a significant public problem and an organized call to government action. In response, the ...

When inmate David Ruiz sued the director of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC), William J. Estelle, in 1972 over dangerous and degrading living and working conditions, he set in motion a ...

Unlike most western states, Texas today has almost no Indian lands, the result of systematic warfare by Texas and the United States against indigenious groups in the nineteenth century that decimated ...

Iron Triangles, also called subgovernments, are informal subunits of government built on mutually reinforcing exchange relationships among each triangle's participants. Such mutual back-scratching may ...

Mobile people vote less when faced with restrictive registration and residency requirements. All states today require that a voter be 18 years old by election day, a U.S. citizen, and a legal resident ...

Planning for the new budget begins in the spring of the year preceding the biennial legislative session, which begins in January of odd-numbered years. Instructions for agency strategic plans--The ...

The following was adapted from the "Precinct Organization" document on the Texas Republican Party website. These suggestions provide citizens of any political affiliation with a good guide for ...

Dorothy Ann Willis (1933-2006) was born September 1, 1933, in Lakeview, Texas. Richards received a bachelor's degree from Baylor University and a teaching certificate from the University of Texas. She ...

Just how rational are bureaucracies when they make decisions--and what do we even mean by rational? The ideal view of bureaucracies envisions highly organized and thorough organizations that ...

In 1991, Speaker Gibson D. 'Gib" Lewis (1937-) became the first individual in Texas history to be elected presiding officer of the House of Representatives for five terms. Lewis, an 11-term legislator ...