Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Harper
Keyword(s):  
Local Politics ◽  
Black Politics ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Black Religion ◽  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
Political Events ◽  
State And Local Politics ◽  
State And Local ◽  
End Times ◽  
Political Decisions

This chapter introduces the book’s main arguments: that black southerners interpreted political events by discerning God’s purposes in emancipation and that they understood the entire late nineteenth century as an age of emancipation, notwithstanding political setbacks. Although most black Protestants agreed that God had intervened dramatically to free four million slaves, they disagreed in the decades that followed about what exactly God planned for their emancipated race. They placed their own experience within biblical narratives in order to predict a hopeful future. Black Protestants’ end times theology, or eschatology, defied categories of white Protestant theology and mattered in both black political decisions and black self understanding. The book brings state and local politics to the scholarship of black religion by focusing on North Carolina. The introduction argues that historians cannot understand black politics without understanding how black Protestants read different biblical stories and interpreted prophecies of the end times.

The End of Days

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Harper
Keyword(s):  
West African ◽  
Black Religion ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
Early Reconstruction ◽  
End Times ◽  
Made In

For 4 million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of God’s intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days. This book demonstrates how black southerners’ theology, in particular their understanding of the end times, influenced nearly every major economic and political decision they made in the aftermath of emancipation. From considering what demands to make in early Reconstruction to deciding whether or not to migrate west, African American Protestants consistently inserted themselves into biblical narratives as a way of seeing the importance of their own struggle in God’s greater plan for humanity. Phrases like “jubilee,” “Zion,” “valley of dry bones,” and the “New Jerusalem” in black-authored political documents invoked different stories from the Bible to argue for different political strategies. This study offers new ways of understanding the intersections between black political and religious thought of this era. Until now, scholarship on black religion has not highlighted how pervasive or contested these beliefs were. This narrative, however, tracks how these ideas governed particular political moments as African Americans sought to define and defend their freedom in the forty years following emancipation.

Education Policy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Manna
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
Education Politics ◽  
State And Local Politics ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Basic Understanding ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
State And Local

This chapter explores education policy as a primary function of state and local government and examines the recent creep of national government into this policy jurisdiction. The author argues that any scholar hoping to understand state and local politics and policymaking needs a basic understanding of education policy, simply because it dominates so much of state budget politics and policy. In addition, the incredible variation in education politics and policy allows fertile ground for testing a vast array of social science theories.

Introduction

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald P. Haider-Markel
Keyword(s):  
Local Politics ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
State And Local Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
State And Local

The chapter provides an overview of this project and the contents of the following chapters on state and local politics and policy. A brief history of the subfield and recent innovations are discussed along with the advantages of studying state and local politics and policy from a comparative perspective.

State and Local Politics: The Great Entanglement

1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Barry Bozeman ◽  
Robert S. Lorch
Keyword(s):  
Local Politics ◽  
State And Local Politics ◽  
State And Local

Local Courts

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Brisbin
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Reciprocal Influence ◽  
Political Function ◽  
State And Local Politics ◽  
Multidisciplinary Studies ◽  
Local Courts ◽  
State And Local

The penalization of crime and the provision of social and economic order through the development and application of policies that resolve disputes among citizens, businesses, and governments are crucial activities for state and local governments. This chapter reviews scholarly studies of how state and local courts of general, limited, and special jurisdiction deliver these public services. With attention to the agenda, procedures, personnel, and outcome of the operations of local courts and the state and local institutions that assist the courts, the chapter addresses what is known about the influence of politics on their activities and their reciprocal influence on state and local politics. Special consideration is devoted to the limitations of the multidisciplinary studies of the behavior and political function of these institutions.

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