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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820240303321

Autore

Cummings Stephen D. <1947->

Titolo

California after Arnold / / Stephen D. Cummings, Patrick B. Reddy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Pub., c2009

ISBN

0-87586-740-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ReddyPatrick B. <1960->

Disciplina

320.794

Soggetti

California Politics and government 1951-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The Arnold chronicles -- pt. 2. California politics -- pt. 3. California in 2010.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a ""must-read"" for political activists, academics, journalists and political junkies of all sorts. It shows where the Golden State has been in the past two generations, where it is now and where it is going. The book describes the Schwarzenegger Administration in the context of broad political, demographic, economic and historical forces going back to the 1911 structural political reforms of Hiram Johnson, and it illustrates how Democrats and Republicans have won past elections in California, the strategies they have used, and why. In addition, over 100 charts unwind a tangle of