California politics and government
Subtitle: a practical approach
By: Larry N. Gerston, Terry Christensen
Contributors: Christensen, Terry
Edition: Fourteenth edition.
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781305953499
Subjects: Politics and government
Notes: Previous edition: 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: California's people, economy and politics: yesterday, today and tomorrow; title: California's political parties and direct democracy; title: California elections, campaigns, and the media; title: Interest groups: the power behind the Dome; title: The Legislature: the perils of policy making; title: California law: politics and the courts; title: The Executive branch: coping with fragmented authority; title: Taxing and spending: budgetary politics and policies; title: California's local government: politics at the grassroots; title: State-Federal relations: conflict, cooperation and chaos.