Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 390
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7425-3250-2 • Hardback • December 2003 • $163.00 • (£127.00)
978-0-7425-3251-9 • Paperback • November 2003 • $59.00 • (£45.00)
978-0-7425-7237-9 • eBook • December 2003 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
Brian P. Janiskee is assistant professor of political science at California State University, San Bernardino. Ken Masugi is the director of the Center for Local Government at the Claremont Institute.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction: Republican Government in California
Part 3 California in a Federal System
Chapter 4 Popular Sovereignty, the Right of Revolution, and California Statehood
Chapter 5 Nature and Convention in the Creation of the 1849 California Constitution
Chapter 6 California and the Seventeenth Amendment
Chapter 7 Californians and Their Constitution: Progressivism, Direct Democracy, and the Administrative State
Part 8 Institutions
Chapter 9 Broken Promise: The Rise and Fall of the California Legislature
Chapter 10 No Allegiance but to the State: California Governors Hiram Johnson and Gray Davis
Chapter 11 The Progressive Court
Chapter 12 The Elections of 2002: Clear Cut or Ambiguous?
Part 13 Local Government
Chapter 14 The Problem of Local Government in California
Chapter 15 Local Government Finance in California
Chapter 16 The California Tax Revolt
Part 17 Statesmanship
Chapter 18 Armageddon in the West: California's Hiram Johnson
Chapter 19 Nixon, California, and American Politics
Chapter 20 Ronald Reagan and the Transformation of Modern California
Part 21 Policies and Perspectives
Chapter 22 Affirmative Action and Proposition 209
Chapter 23 Western Justice: John Ford and Sam Peckinpah on the Defense of the Heroic
Chapter 24 California Farming in a Classical Context
Chapter 25 The Politics of California Public Education
Chapter 26 The Least Secure Right: Privately Owned Firearms in California
Chapter 27 California's Political Mass Media
Chapter 28 An EPIC Legacy
Chapter 29 Water, Water Everywhere and Nary a Drop to Drink
The most interesting book on California politics in decades, and the only volume that weaves together the state's constitutional origins and development with discerning accounts of its major political figures and contemporary policy issues.
— Charles Kesler, Claremont McKenna College
The wide-ranging California Republic will provide a buffet for thought.
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A useful addition to the literature on state politics. Highly recommended.
— Choice Reviews
California even now—when the supposed legatees of Progressivism denounce the idea of a gubernatorial recall—remains the land of golden promise, the Eureka! state. But its citizens, its leaders, its students, its observers sorely need a sober rendering of its history and its institutions. Brian P. Janiskee and Ken Masugi have delivered. If you care at all about the direction of this loveliest of states, then this book is critical to your understanding of a perplexing and wonderful land.
— Kenneth E. Grubbs, Jr., director, National Journalism Center