California, With a New Preface(English, Paperback, Schrag Peter)

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California, With a New Preface(English, Paperback, Schrag Peter) is written by Schrag Peter and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520254058 (ISBN 10) and 9780520254053 (ISBN 13).

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.