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Author : Jackson K. Putnam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Modern California Politics written by Jackson K. Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jackson K. Putnam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780929651026
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Modern California Politics written by Jackson K. Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : By Brian P. Janiskee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442203390
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Democracy in California written by By Brian P. Janiskee and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy in California: Politics and Government in the Golden State is readable and thought-provoking. It is not the standard 'textbook' example of a textbook. Brian P. Janiskee and Ken Masugi clearly explain the politics and character of California's governmental institutions and the dynamics affecting the lives of its citizens. The third edition is updated throughout and includes analysis of the 2010 election. In addition to thorough coverage of California's constitution and development, this book also examines each branch of government as well as local systems. As Janiskee and Masugi explore the nature of public opinion, parties, and campaigns, they show the effects that the state's diverse population has on all levels of politics and government. Janiskee and Masugi have added case studies to each chapter, bringing ideas to life and challenging the reader to become an active participant in California politics. The case studies are ideal starting points for class discussions. Perfect for courses in American government and state and local politics, Democracy in California is a succinct guide to the governmental intricacies of our nation's most populous state.
Author : Brian P. Janiskee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538124610
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Democracy in California written by Brian P. Janiskee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplemental text for American government courses in California that also include a CA politics component. Exploring the nature of public opinion, parties, and campaigns, the authors discuss the effects that the state’s diverse population has on all levels of politics and government.
Author : Kathryn S. Olmsted
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620970961
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Right Out of California written by Kathryn S. Olmsted and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a major reassessment of modern conservatism, historian Kathryn S. Olmsted reexamines the explosive labor disputes in the agricultural fields of Depression-era California, the cauldron that inspired a generation of artists and writers and that triggered the intervention of FDR's New Deal. Right Out of California tells how this brief moment of upheaval terrified business leaders into rethinking their relationship to American politics--a narrative that pits a ruthless generation of growers against a passionate cast of reformers, writers, and revolutionaries. Olmsted reveals how California's businessmen learned the language of populism with the help of allies in the media and entertainment industries, and in the process created a new style of politics: corporate funding of grassroots groups, military-style intelligence gathering against political enemies, professional campaign consultants, and alliances between religious and economic conservatives. The business leaders who battled for the hearts and minds of Depression-era California, moreover, would go on to create the organizations that launched the careers of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. A riveting history in its own right, Right Out of California is also a vital chapter in our nation's political transformation whose echoes are still felt today"--
Author : Edgar Kaskla
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1483371069
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)
Download or read book California Politics written by Edgar Kaskla and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2007-07-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California is full of myths and legends, but its political system shouldn’t be. In this refreshingly critical take, Edgar Kaskla brings an analysis of power—how it is distributed, how it is used, and to what end—to bear on California’s political system and the many troubling issues it currently faces. Starting from the premise that California is in deep crisis politically, economically, culturally, and environmentally, Kaskla traces the state’s economic and political development as a process controlled by and for the elite, be they land barons, the Hollywood glitterati, or Silicon Valley execs. Kaskla focuses on what he calls growth machine politics—elites and their land use as promoters of development and redevelopment—to show students how the gap between the rich and poor in California continues to widen. As minority communities increase in size, as the cost of campaigning in the state balloons, and as the state’s debt crisis mounts, the socio-economic and cultural issues at play in California add up to a real threat to democratic governance. Kaskla clearly outlines how each of the state’s institutions are organized, but also shows how they are affected—indeed distorted—by a host of serious economic and social inequalities. Not one to mince words, Kaskla is in places irreverent, but his text is thoroughly researched and well argued, never crossing the line into the polemical. Tables, figures, maps, and lists for further reading help reinforce the book’s substantive points and critical approach, and a host of student and instructor ancillaries help with study, review, and preparation.
Author : Larry N. Gerston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780534201906
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)
Download or read book California Politics and Government written by Larry N. Gerston and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CALIFORNIA POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT is a brief "nuts and bolts" book with contemporary examples that offer students a real life view of politics while illustrating the complex principles at work in California Government. In addition to introducing California's complex political system to students, major issues as economics, education, and immigration are discussed as along with their impact on California politics. Coverage of interests groups, campaigns and state/federal relations is particularly notable. Furthermore, the text integrates public policy coverage throughout the text, instead of consigning it to individual chapters?making connections and focusing students on the real impacts and practical effects of legislation and other government activities on their lives.
Author : Jonathan Bell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220624X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book California Crucible written by Jonathan Bell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the three decades following World War II, the Golden State was not only the fastest-growing state in the Union but also the site of significant political change. From the late 1940s through the mid-1970s, a generation of liberal activists transformed the political landscape of California, ending Republican dominance of state politics and eventually setting the tone for the Democratic Party nationwide. In California Crucible, Jonathan Bell chronicles this dramatic story of postwar liberalism—from early grassroots organizing and the election of Pat Brown as governor in 1958 to the civil rights campaigns of the 1960s and the campaigns against the New Right in the 1970s. As Bell argues, the emergent "California liberalism" was a distinctly post-New Deal phenomenon that drew on the ambitious ideals of the New Deal but adapted them to a diverse population. The result was a broad coalition that sought to extend social democracy to marginalized groups—such as gay rights and civil rights organizations—that had not been well served by the Democratic Party in earlier decades. In building this coalition, liberal activists forged an ideology capable of bringing Latino farm workers, African American civil rights activists, and wealthy suburban homemakers into a shared political project. By exploring California Democrats' largely successful attempts to link economic rights to civil rights and serve the needs of diverse groups, Bell challenges common assumptions about the rise of the New Right and the decline of American liberalism in the postwar era. As Bell shows, by the end of the 1970s California had become the spiritual home of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party as much as that of the Reagan Revolution.
Author : Sarah R. Coleman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691203334
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Walls Within written by Sarah R. Coleman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : the tough question -- The rose's sharp thorn : Texas and the rise of unauthorized immigrant education activism -- "A subclass of illiterates" : the presidential politics of unauthorized immigrant education -- "Heading into uncharted waters" : Congress, employer sanctions, and labor rights -- "A riverboat gamble" : the passage of employer sanctions -- "To reward the wrong way is not the American way" : welfare and the battle over immigrants' benefits -- From the border to the heartland : local immigration enforcement and immigrants' rights -- Epilogue
Author : Renée Van Vechten
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1452203067
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)
Download or read book California Politics: A Primer written by Renée Van Vechten and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underscoring the essentials, Van Vechten's concise text delivers on the concepts and details students need to understand how California's political system works. The thoroughly revised second edition retains all the strengths of the first edition.
Author : Renee B. Van Vechten
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1483375617
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)
Download or read book California Politics written by Renee B. Van Vechten and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California Politics: A Primer concisely explains how California’s history, political culture, rules, and institutions work together to shape its political landscape. Author Renee Van Vechten begins with a brief political history of the state, then walks through direct democracy, the legislature, executive branch, and court system, covers local government, and concludes with discussion of the state’s budget process, campaigns and elections, political engagement, and major policy issues facing the state. The thoroughly revised Fourth Edition includes new maps and coverage of the political problems raised by persistent drought, prison reform, immigration, political disengagement among young Californians, new laws affecting voting and elections, and the controversy over mandatory vaccination of schoolchildren.
Author : Robert Stanley Oden
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516510658
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)
Download or read book California Politics written by Robert Stanley Oden and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California Politics: Shifting Majorities, Emerging Minorities presents a contemporary view of the political, cultural, and social changes that have occurred in California in the late 20th century and early 21st century. This is a set of writings from distinguished scholars and observers of the California political scene whose analysis of the shifting racial majorities and emerging racial and cultural minorities in state has affected many facets of life. The issues of immigration, emergence and power of Latino politics, African American, Latino, and Korean American conflicts in the political arena, and the evolution of gay and lesbian politics all bring a unique tapestry of culture and race and ethnicity that was once dominated by an Anglo culture. The new edition features essays that reflect the dynamics of demographic change in California and an introduction that explores the origin and significance of the Black Lives Matter Movement This anthology will be useful for students seeking careers in teaching in California as well as students seeking to work in the urban communities of the Los Angeles area and the rural areas of the state. This book also offers case studies for political science and sociology students who are interested in the dynamics of race and class concerning historic moments in contemporary California history.
Author : Ethan Rarick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520248287
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book California Rising written by Ethan Rarick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-04-26 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edmund G. (Pat) Brown has long been considered one of the two or three most effective governors of California. Thanks to this exhaustively researched and vividly written study by Ethan Rarick, we can now grasp the true strength and charisma of this extraordinary governor and the highpoint of public value and performance he orchestrated in the creation of contemporary California. A seasoned reporter, Rarick left everything behind to research and write this book. He made the right decision."—Kevin Starr, University Professor of History, University of Southern California "This is an impressive and important work--exhaustively researched, elegantly written. It's not only the biography of the central figure in modern California history, Governor Pat Brown, but the story of a crucial era in California and its place in the nation's imagination. California Rising is a major document in our understanding of the man and the place he helped make."—Peter Schrag, former editorial page editor of the Sacramento Bee and author of Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future "Ethan Rarick has written a shrewd and lively account of the life of Pat Brown, California's most constructive governor in the last half-century. What a pleasant way to learn about the history of the golden state during the key period in which state government was confronted with the economic and social challenges of rapid modernization. A very impressive book."—Nelson W. Polsby, Heller Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley "An important and enjoyable book."—Bruce Cain, coeditor of Voting at the Political Fault Line "Ethan Rarick's narrative of the life of Pat Brown is a fascinating look at the maturation of a political animal. We follow closely as Brown gladhands his way up California's political ladder and becomes his state's most progressive governor. In this meticulous study, Rarick fleshes out Brown's battles with Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan throughout the 1960s. California Rising profits from Rarick's broad understanding of California and his constructive use of Brown's personal notes and correspondence."—Douglas Brinkley, author of Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War
Author : Jeff Cummins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538129302
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book California written by Jeff Cummins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition includes key political developments over the last few years and continues to look at the diverse and hyperpluralistic nature of the state itself, particularly its people and the groups to which they belong.The authors continue to explain California politics through the dual lenses of diversity and hyperpluralism.
Author : Emily E. Straus
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812209583
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Death of a Suburban Dream written by Emily E. Straus and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compton, California, is often associated in the public mind with urban America's toughest problems, including economic disinvestment, gang violence, and failing public schools. Before it became synonymous with inner-city decay, however, Compton's affordability, proximity to manufacturing jobs, and location ten miles outside downtown Los Angeles made it attractive to aspiring suburbanites seeking single-family homes and quality schools. As Compton faced challenges in the twentieth century, and as the majority population shifted from white to African American and then to Latino, the battle for control over the school district became symbolic of Compton's economic, social, and political crises. Death of a Suburban Dream explores the history of Compton from its founding in the late nineteenth century to the present, taking on three critical issues—the history of race and educational equity, the relationship between schools and place, and the complicated intersection of schooling and municipal economies—as they shaped a Los Angeles suburb experiencing economic and demographic transformation. Emily E. Straus carefully traces the roots of antagonism between two historically disenfranchised populations, blacks and Latinos, as these groups resisted municipal power sharing within a context of scarcity. Using archival research and oral histories, this complex narrative reveals how increasingly racialized poverty and violence made Compton, like other inner-ring suburbs, resemble a troubled urban center. Ultimately, the book argues that Compton's school crisis is not, at heart, a crisis of education; it is a long-term crisis of development. Avoiding simplistic dichotomies between urban and suburban, Death of a Suburban Dream broadens our understanding of the dynamics connecting residents and institutions of the suburbs, as well as the changing ethnic and political landscape in metropolitan America.
Author : Farha Ghannam
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520230469
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Remaking the Modern written by Farha Ghannam and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnography of a housing project in Cairo, which demonstrates how the modernizing efforts of the Egyptian government runs headlong into the traditional customs of the area's low-income residents. Brings new meaning to the phrase "global and local."
Author : Dr Robert Stanley Oden
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516510641
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)
Download or read book California Politics written by Dr Robert Stanley Oden and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California Politics: Shifting Majorities, Emerging Minorities presents a contemporary view of the political, cultural, and social changes that have occurred in California in the late 20th century and early 21st century. This is a set of writings from distinguished scholars and observers of the California political scene whose analysis of the shifting racial majorities and emerging racial and cultural minorities in state has affected many facets of life. The issues of immigration, emergence and power of Latino politics, African American, Latino, and Korean American conflicts in the political arena, and the evolution of gay and lesbian politics all bring a unique tapestry of culture and race and ethnicity that was once dominated by an Anglo culture. The new edition features essays that reflect the dynamics of demographic change in California and an introduction that explores the origin and significance of the Black Lives Matter Movement This anthology will be useful for students seeking careers in teaching in California as well as students seeking to work in the urban communities of the Los Angeles area and the rural areas of the state. This book also offers case studies for political science and sociology students who are interested in the dynamics of race and class concerning historic moments in contemporary California history. Dr. Robert Stanley Oden is a lifelong community and political activist from his hometown of San Diego and the Oakland/Berkeley communities in California. He is a former Black Panther Party member. After 15 years of working as a management analyst in city government in Berkeley, he earned a Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Cruz in sociology. He is currently a professor at Sacramento State University. Dr. Oden has several published essays including, "Race, Poverty, and Social Justice" (2007), "Hurricane Katrina, Response and Responsibilities" (2005), and "Introduction to Ethnic Studies" (2004). He is the author of From Blacks to Brown and Beyond: The Struggle for Progressive Politics in Oakland, California, 1966-2011 (2012).
