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History at Berkeley: A Dialog in Three Parts

Gene A. Brucker
Henry F. May
David A. Hollinger
1998

Three members of the Berkeley history department trace the changes from the 1950s through the 1970s. Over these two decades, the department underwent profound changes as the old guard of conventional, provincial historians gave way before a wave of "Young Turks" who opened the curriculum to new courses and the doors to new people. This book is a must for historians and history buffs.

Explorations in the Evolution of Congress

H. Douglas Price
1998

For 30 years, Douglas Price expressed some of the most interesting ideas in the field of congressional behavior. Here, collected for the first time, are his most important essays on the history and structure of Congress, essays that have had enormous influence on students of Congress everywhere.

Minoritized Space: An Inquiry into the Spatial Order of Things

Michel Laguerre
1999

In order to have ethnic minorities one must create a minoritized space, argues Laguerre. He provides a conceptual framework for the mechanisms that produce this minoritized space, the way it operates, and the technology of its reproduction, and explains how and why the spatial question is intrinsic to the minority question and crucial to our reevaluation of minority status in America.

On Parties: Essays Honoring Austin Ranney

Nelson W. Polsby
Raymond E. Wolfinger
1999

Over the past 50 years, no one has contributed more to our understanding of political parties than Austin Ranney. Here, 12 leading experts, Ranney’s colleagues and students, adopt his agenda and examine contemporary political parties from a variety of perspectives. They highlight the recent movement to subject parties to legal regulation and control and examine topics ranging from party ideology, to the nomination process, and the perennial issue of party decline.

Making Government Work: California Cases in Policy, Politics, and Public Management

Barry Keene
2000

Unlike the sanitized version in civics texts, this book provides a savvy, sophisticated look at how laws are really made. It profiles colorful characters like Artie Samish and Jesse 'Big Daddy' Unruh, big money conflicts over horse racing and Indian casinos, and the clash of public and private interests over issues from insurance to health care and beyond. The authors are Jay Michael, one of the state's most experienced lobbyists, and Dan Walters, the capitol's premier columnist.

Alternative Techniques for Managing Smart Growth, 2nd ed.

Irving Schiffman
2001

In his authoritative, cutting-edge primer on the planning dilemmas faced by local governments, Schiffman proposes innovative techniques for dealing with land-use issues and offers sage advice on the politics of adopting land-use measures and fostering community acceptance. His techniques address environmental, social, and economic concerns, and he offers useful examples of benefits, limitations, legal status, and specific community uses.

Speaking Freely: A Scholar's Memoir of Experience in the University of California

Angus E. Taylor
2000

Angus Ellis Taylor was born October 13, 1911, on a homestead ranch near Craig, Colorado, and moved to California with his parents at the age of nine. He went east to study mathematics at Harvard and graduated summa cum laude in 1933. He received his doctorate in mathematics with highest honors from California Institute of Technology in 1936, spent a year as a National Research fellow at Princeton, and came home to southern California in 1938 to begin a long and distinguished career at the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught mathematics at UCLA and served six years as...

Documentary Supplements to The Gold and the Blue

Edited by Clark Kerr
2003

In his two-volume memoir, The Gold and the Blue: Academic Triumphs and Political Turmoil, Clark Kerr refers to key documents that describe people, events, and policies that shaped the University of California during his years as the Berkeley campus's first chancellor and as university president. Many of those documents are reproduced in this volume. They range from memorial statements and testimonials for associates who worked tirelessly for the university to documents that convey student, legal, and administrative points of view during the 1960's Free Speech Movement. Also included...

Budget Reform and Administrative Decentralization in the University of California

Loren M. Furtado
2002

In 1960, Loren Furtado was appointed university budget officer and assisted in reorganizing the university's budgetary processes and in implementing the decentralization of administration to the campuses. Here he documents Clark Kerr's efforts to bring administrative order to a rapidly growing and increasingly sprawling multiversity.

Holding These Truths: Empowerment and Recognition in Action-Interactive Case Study Curriculum for Multicultural Dispute Resolution

Nancy Erbe
2003

"Many case studies in conflict resolution are only results oriented, which limits students and instructors from exploring the true-to-life complexities of the field. The studies in this text are process oriented. No preselected answers or results are provided, which models the obvious nature of actual conflict resolution. These case studies lead readers to challenge their own ethical awareness, instincts, and knowledge. They pose difficult, pertinent questions whose responses require careful reflection and research, such as 'Are you aware of different cultural perceptions regarding "...