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Author Biography
Mark Paul is senior scholar and deputy director of the California program at the New America Foundation. He was formerly deputy treasurer of California and deputy editorial page editor of the Sacramento Bee.
Table of Contents
List of Figures | p. ix |
Prologue. Out of Luck | p. 1 |
Building and Breaking California | |
Crisis without Exit | p. 7 |
History and the Constitution | p. 16 |
Empowering and Shackling Sacramento | p. 35 |
From Teachers to Janitors: Direct Democracy Demotes the Legislature | p. 58 |
The California Fix | |
Budgeting without Shackles | p. 79 |
The Architecture of Political Frustration | p. 105 |
Remaking Elections and the Legislature | p. 126 |
Government from the Bottom Up | p. 151 |
A More Direct Democracy | p. 166 |
Epilogue. Good Rules to Match Its Mountains | p. 185 |
Notes | p. 193 |
Acknowledgments | p. 211 |
Index | p. 217 |
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