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| Tables, Figures, and Map | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Imagined West and the Mythical California | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Capitalism, Inequality, and the Limits of Democracy: California, in Theory | |
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| Democracy, Anyone? | |
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| The Power Elite and Development | |
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| Growth Machines | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Elite Politics: Individuals and Organizations | |
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| Defining the Power Elite | |
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| Growth Machines and Urban Development | |
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| The Hubs of Growth Machines | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Historical Development of Elite Politics | |
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| From the Missions to the Ranchos (1770s-1840s) | |
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| The Gold Rush, Statehood, and the Power of the Railroads (1840s-1880s) | |
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| The Progressive Era (1890s-1910s) | |
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| Labor Unrest and the Great Depression (1910s-1930s) | |
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| World War II and Postwar Suburbanization (1940s-Present) | |
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| Power Politics and Progressivism | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Gaining Political Access: Parties, Campaigns, and Elections | |
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| The Secret Life of the Two-Party System | |
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| Parties and Participation | |
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| Candidates, Media, and Getting Elected | |
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| Campaigns and Regulating Money | |
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| The Coopting of Direct Democracy | |
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| Securing Two-Party Dominance: A Second Look | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Legislative Process and the Role of Interest Groups: The Road to a Professional Legislature and Back Again | |
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| Interest Groups and Lobbying | |
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| Campaign Contributions | |
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| Lobbying | |
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| Public Relations, Advertising, Propaganda | |
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| Litigation | |
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| The Legislature: Lawmakers? | |
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| Power Politics, Insider Trading, and the Apathetic Public | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Notes | |
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| California's Governor and Challenges to the Plural Executive System: Gubernatorial Competence and Political Personality | |
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| Formal and Informal Powers of the Governor | |
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| The Plural Executive System | |
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| Politics at the End of Reality | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Dual System of Justice: From Dual Justice to No Justice? | |
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| Criminal and Civil Law | |
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| The Three Tiers of California Courts | |
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| Problems and Controversies in California's Legal System | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Local Governments and Obsessive Development | |
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| How Local Governments Are Organized | |
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| The Fiscalization of Land Use and the Legacy of Proposition 13 | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Notes | |
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| "The Chronic": California's Permanent Budget Crisis | |
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| The Addiction Redefined | |
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| The Budget Process, Revenues, and Spending | |
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| Budgetary Constraints: Micromanagement as an Antitax Strategy | |
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| The Disintegrating Federal System and Effects on the States | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Conclusions: The Limits to Democracy and the Limits to Government | |
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| California in a Global Context | |
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| A Final Note of Optimism | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Notes | |
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| For Further Research | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |