California is at a tipping point. Severe budget deficits, unsustainable pension costs, heavy taxes, cumbersome regulation, struggling cities, and distressed public schools are but a few of the challenges that policymakers must address for the state to remain a beacon of business innovation and economic opportunity. City Journal has for years been cataloging the political and economic issues of our nation's largest metropolitan areas, and in this collection compiled and introduced by City Journal editor Brian C. Anderson, the cracks in California's flawed policy plans are displayed in detail, and analyzed by a diverse set of experts in the state's design.
The list of contributors includes:
Steven Malanga, William Voegeli, Joel Kotkin, Wendell Cox, Arthur B. Laffer, Steven Greenhut, Victor Davis Hanson, Heather Mac Donald, John Buntin, Ben Boychuk, Tom Gray, Andrew Klavan, Troy Senik, Larry Sand, Michael Anton, and Guy Sorman.
While there is plenty of literature on California's history, topography, and attractions, The Beholden State: California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It is the first book examining in rigorous detail how a place seen just a generation ago as the dynamic engine of the American future could, through bad policy ideas, find itself with among the highest unemployment rates and poorest educational outcomes in the country. The book is as thoroughly analytical as it is pragmatically proscriptive, complete with policy solutions mapping the way forward for a struggling state.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: The Politics and Economics of Decline
- Chapter 1: The Beholden State
- Chapter 2: The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm
- Chapter 3: The Golden State’s War on Itself
- Chapter 4: Cali to Business: Get Out!
- Chapter 5: The Long Stall
- Chapter 6: The Pension Fund That Ate California
- Chapter 7: Flatten Taxes!
- Chapter 8: The Radical Reform That California Needs
- Part II: The Urban Fiscal Crisis
- Chapter 9: Lost Angeles
- Chapter 10: How the Road to Bell Was Paved
- Chapter 11: Broken Windows, Broken City
- Part III: Of Energy and Environment
- Chapter 12: A Crude Awakening
- Chapter 13: The Water Wars
- Part IV: Public Order
- Chapter 14: The Reclamation of Skid Row
- Chapter 15: The LAPD Remade
- Chapter 16: The Sidewalks of San Francisco
- Part V: Immigration Dilemmas
- Chapter 17: The Rainbow Coalition Evaporates
- Chapter 18: The Demographic Revolution
- Part VI: Education
- Chapter 19: The Worst Union in America
- Chapter 20: The Bilingual Ban That Worked
- Chapter 21: The Union’s Occupation
- Chapter 22: Triggering School Reform
- Chapter 23: Grading the Teachers
- Chapter 24: UC Two
- Part VII: The Culture
- Chapter 25: The Lost Art of War
- Chapter 26: Radical Graffiti Chic
- Chapter 27: Tom Wolfe’s California
- Part VIII: Keep Hope Alive
- Chapter 28: The Silicon Lining
- Chapter 29: California, Here We Stay
- List of Contributors
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