Beholden State - Californias Lost Promise and How to Recapture It

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Brian C. Anderson
• Assisted by: Brian C Anderson (Editor), Brian C. Anderson (Editor), Anderson Brian C. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2013
• EAN: 9781442223431
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2343-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; California, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, Urban & municipal planning, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government