Is California beyond repair?

The state is mired in perpetual budget crisis and its government is paralyzed by partisan gridlock...

Frustrated Californians know something is wrong, but not what's broken and how it can be fixed...

Groups across the political spectrum are pushing reforms, even a constitutional convention...

In California Crackup, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul provide clear and informed answers.

Their
fast-paced and often humorous narrative deftly exposes the origins of
our current political and fiscal problems—from the ugly 1879
constitutional convention to Hiram Johnson’s Progressive reforms to the
Prop 13 tax revolt and its legacy of supermajority requirements and
voter initiatives.

Mathews and Paul then furnish a uniquely
California fix: innovative solutions that allow Californians to debate
their choices, settle on the best ones, hold elected officials
accountable for results, and choose anew if something doesn’t work.

Concise, lively, and provocative, California Crackup offers something new: a genuinely democratic operating system for the state.

California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (Paperback)

By Joe Mathews, Mark Paul

$21.95

ISBN-13: 9780520266568
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Published: University of California Press, 8/2010

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