Texas state government
Subtitle: the moral foundations
By: Lee M. Allen, Sandra Quinn-Musgrove.
Contributors: Quinn-Musgrove, Sandra L.
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Dubuque, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Political ethics -- Texas.; Texas -- Politics and government.
Description: ... [This text] deal[s] with the moral dimensions of Texas government ... [The authors] proceed by clarifying the basic values and moral principles of the founding fathers of Texas, and show how these values are the foundation for the political decisions made every day in Texas. [Their] approach is decision oriented, tracing the hard choices that must be made between competing value systems and showing how basic political values shape and determine the  final result ... This book is designed to ... build a solid understanding of the relationship between morality and Texas state government. It is also designed to be compatible with a course on ethics and morality in politics. [The authors use a] concise treatment of a very difficult and vexing subject. -Pref.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to political morality; title: Foundations of morality; title: Texas legislature; title: Chief executive of Texas; title: Texas bureacracy; title: Texas judiciary; title: Local governments in Texas; title: Texas political parties; title: Texas state finance and budgeting; title: Public policy: education in Texas; title: Environmental policy; title: The future and political morality; title: Appendix: Declaration of Independence.