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California: Politics and History
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ISBN10: 1988557593
ISBN13: 9781988557595
Publisher: Humanities Academic Publishers
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 374
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781988557595
Publisher: Humanities Academic Publishers
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 374
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
California is the world's fifth-largest economy, the most demographically diverse major state in the United States, and the site of the most contested governance experiments in American democracy - a state that cannot house its workers, cannot resolve its water crisis, and cannot be certain that its fifty-year climate authority will survive its current federal legal challenge. California Government traces this state's governance from pre-contact Indigenous civilization and the railroad monopoly era through the Progressive institutions that still define its political architecture, and arrives at the urgent crises of 2026 - a housing shortage built by institutional design, a water system overtaken by climate change, a vehicle emission program under federal legal attack, a sanctuary state in direct conflict with Washington, and an electoral system whose one-party dominance raises questions about democratic accountability no reform has yet resolved. Current through March 2026, this is the textbook California governance deserves.
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