Description: In California Crackup, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul provide clear and informed answers about California's governing crisis. Concise, lively, and provocative, California Crackup offers something new: a genuinely democratic operating system for the state.
In California Crackup , Joe Mathews and Mark Paul provide clear and informed answers.
Their fast-paced and often humorous narrative deftly exposes the origins of our current political and fiscal problems\u2014from the ugly 1879 constitutional convention to Hiram Johnson\u2019s Progressive reforms to the Prop 13 tax revolt and its legacy of supermajority requirements and voter initiatives.
Mathews and Paul then furnish an uniquely California fix: innovative solutions that allow Californians to debate their choices, settle on the best ones, hold elected officials accountable for results, and choose anew if something doesn\u2019t work.