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This book provides a detailed analytic history of direct legislation the initiative and referendum in California from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present day. California was one of the first states to implement mechanisms for direct legislation, and these mechanisms have been used with growing frequency as the entire process has become professionalized (from signature-gathering through fund-raising to legal challenge and defense). The author studies this important political device in terms of voter interest and behavior, its role in public issues, and how it has affected the state s politics and government. The book first analyzes how and why direct legislation came to California, seeing it as a typical example of the disconnected nature of progressive era reforms. It then studies selectively, from among the 300 propositions that have been on California ballots, those propositions that have been most relevant to the major issues of their time, have generated the highest levels of voter interest and participation, and have shaped the development of state politics and government.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Initiative and Referendum in California, 1898-1998
• Author: John M. Allswang
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780804738118
• ISBN: 0804738114
• ID: 04717079
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 680 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2000

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