Paradise Plundered
Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego
The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing voter distrust with government, a demand for services but not taxes to pay for them, a sharp decline in enlightened leadership and effective civic watchdogs, and dysfunctional political institutions have all contributed to the current governance malaise.Until recently, San Diego, California-America's 8th largest city-seemed immune to such systematic governance disorders. This sunny beach town entered the 1990s proclaiming to be America's…
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Weitere Autoren: Kogan, Vladimir / Mackenzie, Scott A.
- ISBN: 978-0-8047-8218-0
- EAN: 9780804782180
- Produktnummer: 23012276
- Verlag: Stanford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'665 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Steven P. Erie is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Urban Studies and Planning Program, University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Rainbow's End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics (1998), Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development (Stanford, 2004), and Beyond 'Chinatown': The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California (Stanford, 2006). Vladimir Kogan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.Scott A. MacKenzie is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis.
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