The beholden state : California's lost promise and how to recapture it / / edited by Brian C. Anderson ; foreword by William E. Simon, Jr.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Anderson, Brian C., 1961-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 330 p.
• Notes: Includes index.

Table of Contents

• Foreword / William E. Simon, Jr.
• Introduction / Brian C. Anderson
• The politics and economics of decline
• The beholden state / Steven Malanga
• The big-spending, high-taxing, lousy-services paradigm / William Voegeli
• The golden state's war on itself / Joel Kotkin
• Cali to business : get out! / Steven Malanga
• The long stall / Wendell Cox
• The pension fund that ate California / Steven Malanga
• Flatten taxes! / Arthur B. Laffer
• The radical reform that California needs / Troy Senik
• The urban fiscal crisis
• Lost Angeles / Joel Kotkin
• How the road to bell was paved / William Voegeli
• Broken windows, broken city / Steven Greenhut
• Public order
• The reclamation of skid row / Heather Mac Donald
• The LAPD remade / John Buntin
• The sidewalks of San Francisco / Heather Mac Donald
• Of energy and environment
• A crude awakening / Tom Gray
• The water wars / Victor Davis Hanson
• Immigration dilemmas
• The rainbow coalition evaporates / Steven Malanga
• The demographic revolution / Heather Mac Donald
• Education
• The worst union in America / Troy Senik
• The bilingual ban that worked / Heather Mac Donald
• The union's occupation / Ben Boychuk
• Triggering school reform in California / Ben Boychuk
• Grading the teachers / Larry Sand
• UC two / Heather Mac Donald
• The culture
• The lost art of war / Andrew Klavan
• Radical graffiti chic / Heather Mac Donald
• Tom Wolfe's California / Michael Anton
• Keep hope alive
• The silicon lining / Guy Sorman
• California, here we stay / Victor Davis Hanson.