The City at Stake
Subtitle: Secession, Reform, and the Battle for Los Angeles
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780691115900
Subjects: Local government; Politics / Current Events; Los Angeles County; Government - U.S. Government; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics - Current Events; Los Angeles County (Calif.); Government - Local; Political Process - General; American History; Political Science / Government / Local; Political Science and International Relations; Secession; Politics and government; United States - State & Local - West; California; Charters; Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.)
First sentence: IN THE FACE OF global disorder, the fall of empires, the movement of peoples across national boundaries, and agitation for secession, can government adapt?