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A 30-Year-Old Can of Worms

Now that he’s back in the Governor’s office, Jerry Brown will have to revisit an issue he championed 30 years ago, but is now a major source of California’s budget woes: Proposition 13. In a recent story about Brown’s return to office, the New York Times interviewed Joe Mathews, co-author of California Crackup, on how [more...]

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California's Improper Founding: New Podcast with Joe Mathews and Mark Paul

In this UC Press podcast, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul reveal that in the slapdash political climate of the Gold Rush, California modeled its constitution after Iowa’s. The reason? It was short.

Mathews and Paul, the authors of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It, go on to [more...]

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