Author: Gerald BonettoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780393675368
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The most current look at California politics, complete with an award-winning adaptive learning tool
Governing California in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Gerald BonettoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780393675368
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The most current look at California politics, complete with an award-winning adaptive learning tool
Governing California in the Twenty-first Century
Author: J. Theodore AnagnosonPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393603699
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Get students thinking critically about California politics.
Governing California in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Governing California in the Twenty-First Century, Fourth Edition, introduces students to the basics of California politics and government. Incorporating several of the successful features of We the People, the text emphasizes critical thinking and the relevance of government to students' everyday lives. The Fourth Edition has been updated to reflect recent events and newly available data, including an extensive discussion of the 2012 campaigns and elections and the effects of Propositions 20 and 25. It can be used with any American government textbook or on its own.
American Politics Today and Governing California in the Twenty-First Century
Author: J. Theodore AnagnosonPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393276060
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Show students how politics really works through a focus on conflict and compromise.
Enhancing Government
Author: Erwin ChemerinskyPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804763135
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Federalism—the division of power between national and state governments—has been a divisive issue throughout American history. Conservatives argued in support of federalism and states' rights to oppose the end of slavery, the New Deal, and desegregation. In the 1990s, the Rehnquist Court used federalism to strike down numerous laws of public good, including federal statutes requiring the clean up of nuclear waste and background checks for gun ownership. Now the Roberts Court appears poised to use federalism and states' rights to limit federal power even further. In this book, Erwin Chemerinsky passionately argues for a different vision: federalism as empowerment. He analyzes and criticizes the Supreme Court's recent conservative trend, and lays out his own challenge to the Court to approach their decisions with the aim of advancing liberty and enhancing effective governance. While the traditional approach has been about limiting federal power, an alternative conception would empower every level of government to deal with social problems. In Chemerinsky's view, federal power should address national problems like environmental protection and violations of civil rights, while state power can be strengthened in areas such as consumer privacy and employee protection. The challenge for the 21st century is to reinvent American government so that it can effectively deal with enduring social ills and growing threats to personal freedom and civil liberties. Increasing the chains on government—as the Court and Congress are now doing in the name of federalism—is exactly the wrong way to enter the new century. But, an empowered federalism, as Chemerinsky shows, will profoundly alter the capabilities and promise of U.S. government and society.
American Government and Governing California in the Twenty-First Century
Author: J. Theodore AnagnosonPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393282672
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Always authoritative. More contemporary than ever.
State of Resistance
Author: Manuel PastorPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620973308
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
“Concise, clear and convincing. . . a vision for the country as a whole.” —James Fallows, The New York Times Book Review A leading sociologist's brilliant and revelatory argument that the future of politics, work, immigration, and more may be found in California Once upon a time, any mention of California triggered unpleasant reminders of Ronald Reagan and right-wing tax revolts, ballot propositions targeting undocumented immigrants, and racist policing that sparked two of the nation's most devastating riots. In fact, California confronted many of the challenges the rest of the country faces now—decades before the rest of us. Today, California is leading the way on addressing climate change, low-wage work, immigrant integration, overincarceration, and more. As white residents became a minority and job loss drove economic uncertainty, California had its own Trump moment twenty-five years ago, but has become increasingly blue over each of the last seven presidential elections. How did the Golden State manage to emerge from its unsavory past to become a bellwether for the rest of the country? Thirty years after Mike Davis's hellish depiction of California in City of Quartz, the award-winning sociologist Manuel Pastor guides us through a new and improved California, complete with lessons that the nation should heed. Inspiring and expertly researched, State of Resistance makes the case for honestly engaging racial anxiety in order to address our true economic and generational challenges, a renewed commitment to public investments, the cultivation of social movements and community organizing, and more.
Government and Markets
Author: Edward J. BalleisenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521118484
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
After two generations of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, we now see growing interest in the possibility of constructive governance, alongside public calls for new, smarter regulation. Yet there is a real danger that regulatory reforms will be rooted in outdated ideas. As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market failure models nor public choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our current regulatory challenges. Regulatory studies, long neglected in an atmosphere focused on deregulatory work, is in critical need of new models and theories that can guide effective policy-making. This interdisciplinary volume points the way toward the modernization of regulatory theory. Its essays by leading scholars move past predominant approaches, integrating the latest research about the interplay between human behavior, societal needs, and regulatory institutions. The book concludes by setting out a potential research agenda for the social sciences.
Between Citizens and the State
Author: Christopher P. LossPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691163340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state. Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy education to ready citizens for the national, bureaucratized, and increasingly global world in which they lived. Loss details the myriad ways in which academic leaders and students shaped, and were shaped by, the state's shifting political agenda as it moved from a preoccupation with economic security during the Great Depression, to national security during World War II and the Cold War, to securing the rights of African Americans, women, and other previously marginalized groups during the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, Loss reappraises the origins of higher education's current-day diversity regime, the growth of identity group politics, and the privatization of citizenship at the close of the twentieth century. At a time when people's faith in government and higher education is being sorely tested, this book sheds new light on the close relations between American higher education and politics.
State Building
Author: Francis FukuyamaPublisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847653774
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq. The formation of proper public institutions, such as an honest police force, uncorrupted courts, functioning schools and medical services and a strong civil service, is fraught with difficulties. We know how to help with resources, people and technology across borders, but state building requires methods that are not easily transported. The ability to create healthy states from nothing has suddenly risen to the top of the world agenda. State building has become a crucial matter of global security. In this hugely important book, Francis Fukuyama explains the concept of state-building and discusses the problems and causes of state weakness and its national and international effects.