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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- California--Economic conditions--21st century.
- California.
- California--Social conditions--21st century.
- California--Politics and government--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While there is plenty of literature on California's history, topography, and attractions, The Beholden State: California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It is the first book examining in rigorous detail how a place seen just a generation ago as the dynamic engine of the American future could, through bad policy ideas, find itself with among the highest unemployment rates and poorest educational outcomes in the country
- 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 index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-4422-2344-8
- OCLC:
- 846492816
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