The Political Geography of California
Author: T. Anthony Quinn
Publisher:
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781883638184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: T. Anthony Quinn
Publisher:
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781883638184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Renee B. Van Vechten
Publisher: CQ Press
Published: 2018-01-12
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1506380379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A thorough yet concise overview of California institutions, politics, and initiative process, grounded in an overview of California’s political culture." —Ronnee Schreiber, San Diego State University The thoroughly revised Fifth Edition of California Politics: A Primer concisely explains how California’s history, political culture, rules, and institutions come together to shape politics today and how they will determine the state of affairs tomorrow. Author Renee B. Van Vechten begins with a brief political history of California, then walks through direct democracy, the legislature, executive branch, and court system. She covers local government and concludes with a discussion of the state’s budget process, campaigns and elections, political engagement, and policy issues. From the structure of the state′s government to its local representatives, policies, and voter participation, California Politics: A Primer delivers the concepts and details students need. New to the Fifth Edition An emphasis on California’s place in the federal system provides students with context around the state leadership′s resistance to Trump administration policies on things like California’s sanctuary state status, immigration, the environment, and more. Increased coverage of policy topics throughout the book helps students see how recent policy has impacted issues such as greenhouse gas emissions regulations, attempted "fixes" for water- and drought-related issues, new transportation projects, and prison reform. Extended discussions of elections-related innovations introduce students to recent elections-related topics such as the Top-Two Primary, efforts to increase voter registration, all vote-by-mail elections, and redistricting. New coverage of the "Five Californias" gives students a better understanding of California’s political geography and how distinct segments of the population are primed for political engagement or disaffection. New lists of key terms with clear definitions at the end of each chapter enable students to review the content more effectively. New and updated maps and graphics depict important topics such as California’s newly proposed high-speed rail project. Instructors, sign in at study.sagepub.com/california5e to access test banks built on Bloom’s Taxonomy; editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides; a set of all the graphics from the text; and more!
Author: William A. Selby
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-09-19
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 1119493145
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now in its fourth edition, Rediscovering the Golden State: California Geography examines this unique state’s incredibly diverse landscapes, and how geography and geographic change influences everything from the state’s natural systems and cycles, to its agriculture and more advanced industries, to human migration, cultures, and urban planning. Exploring California through a geographic lens reveals how the field has evolved to cross traditional boundaries, connect local and global issues, and provide the insights that lead to practical solutions to problems new and old. Challenging the reader to look beyond stereotypes and assumptions, this book encourages active participation in planning the state’s dynamic future. And this project makes teaching and learning about the geography of California more convenient, exciting, and rewarding for instructors and students. Going beyond a scientific analysis of natural features and environmental processes, this book illustrates how social, political, and economic divides can be bridged through the study of geography and the connections it brings to light. From geology, weather and climate, biogeography, and hydrology, we cover the state’s physical geography. And from demography and migration, to cultures and economies, to rural and urban geography, we monitor the state’s human geography pulse and then make the vital connections. California continues to lead the nation in population, economics (5th largest in the world), agriculture, natural and cultural diversity, and a host of other categories. This powerful state has earned this powerful publication. This timely and versatile book will prove useful to Californians in business, education, government, and to concerned citizens and curious readers seeking to learn more about the Golden State.
Author: Mark Baldassare
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-05-15
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0520234219
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A joint publication with the Public Policy Institute of California.
Author: Robert W. Durrenberger
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The diversity of physical and cultural background has created in the state of California an environment noteworthy for charm and interest unsurpassed in any part of the world. It seems appropriate that in an area with such a generous endowment of exciting vistas and tremendous works of man someone should attempt to capture and portray on maps as much of the total picture of the state as is possible.
Author: Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kay Anderson
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780761969259
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The editors of this genuinely brilliant book seem to dare the reader to argue with them from the first page... I would encourage everyone interested in cultural geography, or in the cultural turn within a whole set of human geogrphies, to do likewise." --ANNALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS "A richly plural and impassioned re-presentation of cultural geography that eschews everything in the way of boundary drawing and fixity. A re-visioning of the field as "a set of engagements with the world," it contains a vibrant atlas of ever shifting possibilities. Throbbing with commitment, and un-disciplined in the most positive sense of that term, it is exactly what a handbook ought to be." --Professor Allan Pred Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley Ten sections, with a detailed editorial introduction, the Handbook of Cultural Geography presents a comprehensive statement of the relation between the cultural imagination and the geographical imagination. Emphasising the intellectual diversity of the discipline, the Handbook is a textured overview that presents a state-of-the-art assessment of the key questions informing cultural geography, while also looking at resonances between cultural geography and other disciplines.
Author: Kevin R. Cox
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 047069288X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Developed out of the author's own substantial teaching experience, this introduction to political geography approaches its subject matter from the standpoint of political economy and the politics of difference.