Mathews, Joe, 1973-

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.

9780520268524 (cloth : acid-free paper) 9780520266568 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

2010004469


Constitutional history--California.
Direct democracy--California.
Historia constitucional--California.
La democracia directa--California.


California--Politics and government.

JK 8716 / M429c 2010

320.9794