The Beholden State

California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It
Herausgeber: Anderson, Brian C.

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Produktbeschreibung

While there is plenty of literature on California's history, topography, and attractions, The Beholden State: California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It is the first book examining in rigorous detail how a place seen just a generation ago as the dynamic engine of the American future could, through bad policy ideas, find itself with among the highest unemployment rates and poorest educational outcomes in the country

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 727g
• ISBN-13: 9781442223431
• ISBN-10: 144222343X
• Artikelnr.: 37459162

Autorenporträt

Edited by Brian C. Anderson - Contributions by Steven Malanga; William Voegeli; Joel Kotkin; Wendell Cox; Arthur B. Laffer; Steven Greenhut; Victor Davis Hanson; Heather Mac Donald; Larry Sand; Troy Senik; Andrew Klavan; Tom Gray; Ben Boychuk; John Buntin

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Preface William Simon Introduction Brian C. Anderson Part I:
The Politics and Economics of Decline The Golden State's War on Itself
Joel Kotkin The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm
William Voegeli The Beholden State Steven Malanga Cali to Business: Get
Out! Steven Malanga The Long Stall Wendell Cox The Pension Fund That
Ate California Steven Malanga Flatten California! Arthur B. Laffer The
Radical Reform That California Needs Troy Senik Part II: The Urban Fiscal
Crisis Lost Angeles Joel Kotkin How the Road to Bell Was Paved William
Voegeli Broken Windows, Broken City Steven Greenhut Part III: Public
Order The Reclamation of Skid Row Heather Mac Donald The LAPD Remade
John Buntin The Sidewalks of San Francisco Heather Mac Donald Part IV: Of
Energy and Environment California Needs a Crude Awakening Tom Gray
California's Water Wars Victor Davis Hanson Part V: Immigration Dilemmas
The Rainbow Coalition Evaporates Steven Malanga California's Demographic
Revolution Heather Mac Donald Part VI: Education The Worst Union in
America Troy Senik The Bilingual Ban That Worked Heather Mac Donald The
Union's Occupation Ben Boychuk HED TK Ben Boychuk Grading the Teachers
Larry Sand HED TK Heather Mac Donald Part VII: The Culture The Lost Art
of War Andrew Klavan Radical Graffiti Chic Heather Mac Donald Tom
Wolfe's California Michael Anton Part VIII: Keep Hope Alive The Silicon
Lining Guy Sorman California, Here We Stay Victor Davis Hanson