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Author Mathews, Joe, 1973-

Title California crackup [electronic resource] : how reform broke the Golden State and how we can fix it / Joe Mathews and Mark Paul.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 224 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Constitutional history -- California.
Direct democracy -- California.
California -- Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Paul, Mark, 1948-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780520268524 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780520266568 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

 
    
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