Oklahoma Politics and Policies: Governing the Sooner State

by George G. Humphreys, David R. Morgan, Robert E. England

Book Overview

Oklahoma is a plains state exemplifying the Middle American virtues of family, lodge, and church; a southern state in the path of the power shift from the indus-trial East to the energy-rich sunbelt; a western state of modern cowboys and rodeos. Small wonder its political culture is so varied. The authors of Oklahoma Politics and Policies contend that Oklahoma is a paradox-a state struggling for a clear sense of identity where the old and new vie...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803281366
• ISBN13: 9780803281363
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"