California crackup how reform broke the Golden State and how we can fix it /

Mathews, Joe, 1973-

California crackup how reform broke the Golden State and how we can fix it / [electronic resource] : Joe Mathews and Mark Paul. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010. - 224 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.

Out of luck -- Building and breaking California -- Crisis without exit -- History and the constitution -- Empowering and shackling Sacramento -- From teachers to janitors : direct democracy demotes the legislature -- The California fix -- Budgeting without shackles -- The architecture of political frustration -- Remaking elections and the legislature -- Government from the bottom up -- A more direct democracy -- Good rules to match its mountains.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Constitutional history--California.
Direct democracy--California.


California--Politics and government.


Electronic books.

JK8716 / .M38 2010

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