Many people are unhappy with California government.
One way in which they express their unhappiness is through the initiative process. One increasingly common view is that they have emasculated the state legislature. Proponents of this view claim that decades of voter initiatives, combined with thousands of federal mandates, render state legislators unable to solve California's present and future problems. There is, however, reason to believe that many mandates and initiatives have little or no effect on state policy makers. He has a B.A. from the University of California, Irvine, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.