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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. Shows that California's ability to forge its culturally and ethnically diverse population into a successful democracy will be of crucial importance not only to America but to the world.
Full Description
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.
Contents
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
