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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mathews, Joe, 1973-
Other Authors: Paul, Mark, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
Subjects:
California > Politics and government.
Constitutional history > California.
Direct democracy > California.
Table of 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.