Research

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.

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...

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.

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 "...

Berkeley at Mid-Century: Elements of a Golden Age

Verne A. Stadtmna
et al
2002

Verne A. Stadtman authors a short version of his earlier history of the University of California's first 100 years. Berkeley's 1964 characterization as the country's "best balanced distinguished university" is set against its long academic history. Botanist and former dean of the College of Letters and Science Lincoln Constance relates how that college expanded during the 1960s, not only maintaining but increasing the excellence of its offerings and the research reputations of its faculty. An account of expansion and distinction for the burgeoning College of Engineering in that period is...

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.

Strategy, Ethics, and the War on Terrorism

Albert C. Pierce
2003

In two long, thoughtful essays, Albert Pierce, the first director of the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy, explores the shifting terrain where strategy and ethics collide in the war on terrorism. The third piece of this important work is a detailed case study of the United States' ill-fated intervention in Haiti. Pierce, a professor of military strategy at the National War College, is currently directing a multi-year project on ethical challenges and the future of conflict.

Latinos and Public Policy in California: An Agenda for Opportunity

David Lopez
Andres Jimenez
2003

Despite California's Mexican origins, the Mexican/Latino presence represented no more than three percent of the state's population at the beginning of the 20th century. While this presence grew slowly but steadily during the state's postwar population boom, in the last three decades of the 20th century Latinos emerged as the most dynamic sector of the state's population. In the 1990s Latinos accounted for 85 percent of all population growth in the state. Currently Latinos are one-third of the population and the largest ethnic group among the state's school children. If these demographic...