California crackup
Subtitle: how reform broke the Golden State and how we can fix it
By: Joe Mathews and Mark Paul
Contributors: Paul, Mark, 1948-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780520268524; 9780520266568
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: Out of luck; title: Building and breaking California; title: Crisis without exit; title: History and the constitution; title: Empowering and shackling Sacramento; title: From teachers to janitors : direct democracy demotes the legislature; title: The California fix; title: Budgeting without shackles; title: The architecture of political frustration; title: Remaking elections and the legislature; title: Government from the bottom up; title: A more direct democracy; title: Good rules to match its mountains.