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The beholden state : California's lost promise and how to recapture it / edited by Brian C. Anderson ; foreword by William E. Simon, Jr.
Lippincott Library HC107.C2 B44 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and government.
- Social conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- California--Economic conditions--21st century.
- California.
- California--Social conditions--21st century.
- California--Politics and government--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]
- Contents:
- Foreword / William E. Simon, Jr.
- Introduction / Brian C. Anderson
- The politics and economics of decline
- The beholden state / Steven Malanga
- The big-spending, high-taxing, lousy-services paradigm / William Voegeli
- The golden state's war on itself / Joel Kotkin
- Cali to business : get out! / Steven Malanga
- The long stall / Wendell Cox
- The pension fund that ate California / Steven Malanga
- Flatten taxes! / Arthur B. Laffer
- The radical reform that California needs / Troy Senik
- The urban fiscal crisis
- Lost Angeles / Joel Kotkin
- How the road to bell was paved / William Voegeli
- Broken windows, broken city / Steven Greenhut
- Public order
- The reclamation of skid row / Heather Mac Donald
- The LAPD remade / John Buntin
- The sidewalks of San Francisco / Heather Mac Donald
- Of energy and environment
- A crude awakening / Tom Gray
- The water wars / Victor Davis Hanson
- Immigration dilemmas
- The rainbow coalition evaporates / Steven Malanga
- The demographic revolution / Heather Mac Donald
- Education
- The worst union in America / Troy Senik
- The bilingual ban that worked / Heather Mac Donald
- The union's occupation / Ben Boychuk
- Triggering school reform in California / Ben Boychuk
- Grading the teachers / Larry Sand
- UC two / Heather Mac Donald
- The culture
- The lost art of war / Andrew Klavan
- Radical graffiti chic / Heather Mac Donald
- Tom Wolfe's California / Michael Anton
- Keep hope alive
- The silicon lining / Guy Sorman
- California, here we stay / Victor Davis Hanson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442223431
- 144222343X
- OCLC:
- 835104557
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