Research Catalog

Title

Governing California : politics, government, and public policy in the Golden State / Gerald C. Lubenow and Bruce E. Cain, editors.

Publication

Berkeley, Calif. : Institute of Governmental Studies Press, University of California, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Cain, Bruce E.
• Lubenow, Gerald C.

Description

x, 373 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

California > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The rise and decline of the California legislature / Martin Smith -- The governor: managing a mega-state / John Jacobs -- The California Supreme Court / Preble Stolz -- Cities, counties, and the state -- from Prop. 13 to 218 / Revan Tranter -- The California/Washington connection: bears in the beltway / Carl Irving -- The initiative boom: an excess of democracy / Eugene C. Lee -- Redistricting: California 1971-2001 / J. Morgan Kousser -- Covering California: the press wrestles with diversity, complexity and change / Susan F. Rasky -- Business: from Southern Pacific to the Pacific Rim / Fred Martin and Fred Cannon -- Criminal justice: the hottest hot button / Joseph D. McNamara -- Environment: California's air, water, and land / Cheri Lucas Jennings and Bruce H. Jennings -- Health: privatizing a public good / Emery B. Dowell -- Immigration: California tomorrow / Jack Citrin and Andrea L. Campbell -- Welfare: a rage for reform / Eugene Smolensky, Eirik Evenhouse, and Siobhán Reilly -- Epilogue: seeking consensus among conflicting electorates / Bruce E. Cain -- Appendix: Internet resources on California government and public policy / Ron Heckart.

ISBN

0877723761 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^97036692^

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Harvard Library