California crackup : how reform broke the Golden State and how we can fix it /
Joe Mathews and Mark Paul.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
- 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.
Out of luck -- Building and breaking California -- Crisis without exit -- History and the constitution -- Empowering and shackling Sacramento -- From teachers to janitors : direct democracy demotes the legislature -- The California fix -- Budgeting without shackles -- The architecture of political frustration -- Remaking elections and the legislature -- Government from the bottom up -- A more direct democracy -- Good rules to match its mountains.