California

"Peter Schrag takes on the big issues - immigration, globalization, and the impact of California's politics on its quality of life of its citizens - in this account of the Golden State's struggle to recapture the American dream. In the past half-century, California has been both model and antimodel for the nation and often the world, first for its high level of government and public services, such as schools, universities, and highways, and more lately for its dysfunctional government, deteriorating services, and sometimes regressive public policies. Schrag's incisive analysis of political, demographic, and fiscal realities vividly demonstrates that the state has been struggling with a range of problems for a generation. The author shows that California's ability to forge its culturally and ethnically diverse population into a successful democracy will be of crucial importance not only to America, but to the world."--Jacket.

First sentence: No one will ever know what particular event did it-maybe the birth of a Latino boy or a Korean girl or the arrival of an immigrant-but sometime in the fall of 1999 the statistical counter clicked and forever changed California's demographic landscape.

Year

2006

Language

English

Publisher

University of California Press

Editions

4

Pages

352

ISBN

9780520254053

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