New York's broken constitution
Subtitle: the governance crisis and the path to renewed greatness
By: edited by Peter J. Galie, Christopher Bopst, and Gerald Benjamin
Series: SUNY series in American constitutionalism; SUNY series in American constitutionalism
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781438463322; 9781438463339
Subjects: Constitutional law; Congresses
Notes: "The idea for this volume emerged from conferences over the past two decades held at the Rockefeller Institute of Government"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Peter J. Galie and Gerald Benjamin; title: Cleaning the constitution part I : institutions and rights / Peter J. Galie and Christopher Bopst; title: Cleaning the constitution part II : public policies / Peter J. Galie and Christopher Bopst; title: New york state's allegedly unified court system / Daniel L. Feldman and Marc C. Bloustein; title: These seats may not be saved : a fair and rule-bound legislative reapportionment process / Jeffrey Wice and Todd A. Breitbart; title: "Mixed messages" : the governor's message of necessity and the legislative process in New York / Peter J. Galie; title: "Mind the gap" : the promise and limits of home rule in New York / Richard Briffault; title: "Till debt do us part" : the opportunity for New York finance law to enter the twenty-first century / Kenneth Bond; title: "The gift that keeps on giving" : New York's approach to gifts and loans of public money and credit / Christopher Bopst; title: "Forever wild" : the treatment of conservation and the environment by the New York state constitution / Paul Bray; title: Gaming the constitution : why New York's constitutional gambling prohibition does not prohibit gambling / Gerald Benjamin; title: "All of nothing at all" : changing the constitution; title: the reform dilemma / Gerald Benjamin; title: Coda : should voters approve the 2017 ballot proposition calling for a constitutional convention in New York?