The city at stake : secession, reform, and battle for Los Angeles / Raphael J. Sonenshein
| Author(s): | Sonenshein, Raphael |
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| Subjects: | Secession--California--Los Angeles County Secession--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles (Calif.)--Politics and government Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Politics and government Los Angeles (Calif.)--Charters Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2004 |
| LC Classification: | J, JS |
| Table of Contents: | Preface : reform under the gun Ch. 1. The politics of reform : the new institutionalism meets the new diversity 3 Ch. 2. Studying Los Angeles politics 14 Ch. 3. Reform, Los Angeles style 29 Ch. 4. Richard Riordan and conservative reform 57 Ch. 5. Valley secession and the suburban revolt 72 Ch. 6. Charter reform : the cure for secession? 84 Ch. 7. The 1997 municipal elections and the politics of charter reform 95 Ch. 8. The charter reform commissions 104 Ch. 9. The inside game : mayoral authority 110 Ch. 10. The inside game : police reform 123 Ch. 11. The outside game : the politics of participation 130 Ch. 12. The creation of the unified charter 151 Ch. 13. The fall and rise of the unified charter 163 Ch. 14. The campaign for the unified charter 185 Ch. 15. Implementation 209 Ch. 16. The 2001 municipal elections 215 Ch. 17. The vote on secession 227 Ch. 18. Toward a reform regime : governing postsecession Los Angeles 241 Ch. 19. Conclusions and implications : reform, twenty-first-century style 251 App. 1. Summary of the charter proposal 267 App. 2. Using ecological inference model to verify results 275 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2004044253 ISBN: 0691115907 (cloth : alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 306 p. : maps ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 54065485 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0691115907 |