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How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It
University of California Press
August 2010
On Sale: August 4, 2010
237 pages
ISBN: 0520266560
EAN: 9780520266568
Kindle: B003VIWK4C
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Non-Fiction
Is California beyond repair? A sizable number of Golden
State citizens have concluded that it is. Incessant budget
crises plus a government paralyzed by partisan gridlock have
led to demands for reform, even a constitutional convention.
But what, exactly, is wrong and how can we fix it? In
California Crackup, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul provide clear
and informed answers. Their fast-paced and often humorous
narrative deftly exposes the constitutional origins of our
current political and economic problems--from the ugly 1879
constitutional convention to Hiram Johnson's Progressive
reforms to the Proposition 13 property tax revolt and its
legacy of voter initiatives. Mathews and Paul then furnish a
uniquely California fix: innovative solutions that allow
Californians to debate their choices, settle on the best
ones, hold elected officials accountable for results, and
choose anew if something doesn't work. Concise, lively, and
provocative, California Crackup offers something new: a
genuinely democratic operating system for the state.
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