Book Reviews : The Texas Political System. By DAN NIMMO and WILLIAM E. ODEN. (Englewood Cliffs : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971. Pp. 166. $5.95.)

• Author: Warren A. Dixon
• DOI: 10.1177/106591297102400422
• Published date: 01 December 1971
• Date: 01 December 1971

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understand that in &dquo;Western State&dquo; the medics, who were the most visible force
in behalf of reform at the outset, dissipated thoroughly by the end. The author
does not pursue the causes.
O’Neill attemps to place his case study into an appropriate theoretical con-
text, but I should think he would have been more successful had he attempted his
theoretical linkages at a more modest level. For example, the first chapter discusses
the systems model of political activity with a focus on input functions, but then
there is virtually no mention of that perspective again, except for occasional refer-
ences to Catholic &dquo;demands.&dquo; On
the other hand, there are no attemped theoretical
or conceptual linkages to the literature on interest groups or lobbying, even though
the study produced several findings useful to that kind of middle-range theory.
This reviewer enjoyed reading both books, but I suspect that in each case the
utility to other scholars will be confined essentially to those who...