California, With a New Preface : America's High-Stakes Experiment / Peter Schrag; ed. by Peter Schrag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schrag, Peter, Author.

Contributor:

Schrag, Peter, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2008]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Peter Schrag takes on the big issues-immigration, globalization, and the impact of California's politics on its quality of life-in this dynamic account of the Golden State's struggle to recapture the American dream. In the past half-century, California has been both model and anti-model for the nation and often the world, first for its high level of government and public services-schools, universities, highways-and latterly for its dysfunctional government, deteriorating services, and sometimes regressive public policies. California explains how many current "solutions" exacerbate the very problems they're supposed to solve and analyzes a variety of possible state and federal policy alternatives to restore government accountability and a vital democracy to the nation's most populous state and the world's fifth-largest economy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface to the 2008 Edition

Sources and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The New California

2. Dysfunction, Disinvestment, Disenchantment

3. Action Hero

4. Hybrid Democracy

5. Fragile Experiment

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

9780520355156

OCLC:

1408681999