Research Catalog

Title

Constitutional reform in California : making state government more effective and responsive / Bruce E. Cain and Roger G. Noll, editors.

Publication

Berkeley : Institute of Governmental Studies Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Cain, Bruce E.
• Noll, Roger G.

Description

vii, 514 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• California > Politics and government > 1951-
• Constitutional history > California

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Principles of state constitutional design / Bruce E. Cain, Roger G. Noll -- Role of state constitutions in a federal system / Joseph R. Grodin -- Challenge of state constitutions / Robert C. Post -- Executive organization: responsiveness vs. expertise and flexibility / Robert G. Noll -- Administrative law and the California constitution / Michael Asimow -- An effective California judicial system for the 21st century / Harry N. Scheiber, Charles Ruhlin -- Reforming representation in California: checks and balances without gridlock / Kathleen Bawn -- Creating an accountable legislature: the parliamentary option for California government / Bruce E. Cain, Nathaniel Persily -- House discarded? Evaluating the case for a unicameral California legislature / David W. Brady, Brian J. Gaines -- Terms of office, legislative structure, and collective incentives / Linda R. Cohen -- Constitutional change: is it too easy to amend our state constitution? / Bruce E. Cain [and others] -- Reforming the California initiative process: a proposal to increse flexibility and legislative accountablility / Elisabeth R. Gerber -- Reforming the initative process / John Ferejohn -- Options for reforming the California state budget process / John W. Ellwood, Mary Sprague -- Putting the state back into state government: the constitution and the budget / Mathew D. McCubbins -- Constitution limitations on indebtedness: the case of California / D. Roderick Kiewiet -- State supremacy, local sovereignty: reconstructing state/local relations under the California constitution / Daniel B. Rodriguez -- California fiscal federalism: a school finance perspective / Daniel L. Rubinfeld -- Real property and direct democracy in California / Margaret Jane Radin, Brendan P. Cullen -- Environmental policy and state constitution: the role for substantive policy guidance / Barton H. Thompson, Jr.

ISBN

0877723656

LCCN

^^^95038514^

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Harvard Library