TY - BOOK AU - Mathews,Joe AU - Paul,Mark TI - California crackup: how reform broke the Golden State and how we can fix it SN - 9780520268524 (cloth : acid-free paper) AV - JK 8716 M429c 2010 U1 - 320.9794 PY - 2010/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Constitutional history KW - California KW - Direct democracy KW - Historia constitucional KW - La democracia directa KW - Politics and government N1 - 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 ER -