California, With a New Preface

America's High-Stakes Experiment
1. Auflage, With a New Preface 2008
ISBN: 978-0-520-25405-3
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

Reihe: University of California Press

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schrag, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Methodenlehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikberatung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Schrag is a contributing editor and columnist at the Sacramento Bee. He is the author of many books, including Paradise Lost (UC Press) and Final Test.