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Features

• Up-to-date charts, graphs, and maps provide clear visual aids and allow students to conceptualize data for better comprehension and retention.
• “Questions to Consider” at the end of each chapter encourage critical thinking and facilitate study and debate.
• Full Glossary of all terms in Italics supports student learning of key concepts.
• "How to Get in Touch with Your Elected Officials" helps students learn to take action and facilitates involvement in the political process while also offering instructors assignable exercises.
• Online support from Longman includes a comprehensive Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank on the Instructor’s Resource Center as well as a study site for students with online quizzes, PowerPoints, and study guides.
• Brief size and inexpensive price make the text easy to integrate into any course.

New To This Edition

• NEW! "Debating the Issues" boxes present contrasting views of important political issues facing the state, and include reflection questions that can be assigned to further stimulate critical thinking and debate.

• NEW! "Compared to California" features highlight unique aspects of the political structures and processes of California by comparing them to the federal system, other states, and other nations. Critical thinking questions stimulate class discussion.

• NEW! "Enjoying Media: Movies to See and Websites to Explore" sections at the end of each chapter list websites, popular films, and documentaries that illuminate various aspects of California’s politics, culture, and history, providing resources and outside activities for instructors to assign.

Table of Contents

1.  California Politics in Perspective.

2. The Californians: Land, People, and Political Culture.

3. California's Historical Development.

4. Freedom and Equality: California's Delicate Balance.

5. Media Influences and Interest Groups.

6. Political Parties and Other Voluntary Associations.

7. Campaigns and Elections.

8. The California Legislature.

9. California's Plural Executive.

10. Paying the Bills for the Golden State.

11. California Courts and Judges.

12. Criminal Justice and Civil Law.

13. City Governments.

14. Counties, Special Districts, and Regional Agencies.

15. Challenges for California's Future.

Appendix A: Directory of Political Organizations That Anyone Can Join.

Appendix B: California State Offices.

Appendix C: How to Get in Touch with Your Elected Officials.

Courses

California Politics  [CALIFORNIA EDITIONS]   (Political Science)
State and Local Government  [CALIFORNIA EDITIONS]   (Political Science)

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• California Government and Politics Today, 13/E
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  Written by professor and elected official Mona Field, California Government and Politics Today offers a unique insider’s view that engages and informs students.  Blending political data with economic, cultural and demographic trends, this text provides clear and succinct coverage of California’s government while encouraging students to become politically involved.

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  With a focus on ethnic and cultural diversity, the global economy’s impact on California (and vice versa), and the emphasis on political involvement as an essential component of achieving the California Dream this new edition continues a tradition of scholarly and practical coverage of California government. Professor and elected official Mona Field offers a unique insider’s view that engages and informs students.

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  With a focus on ethnic and cultural diversity, the global economy’s impact on California (and vice versa), and the emphasis on political involvement as an essential component of achieving the California Dream this new edition continues a tradition of scholarly and practical coverage of California government. Professor and elected official Mona Field offers a unique insider’s view that engages and informs students.

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  ©2013  |  Longman  |  Paper; 160 pp  |  Estimated Availability : 02/27/2012
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  With a focus on ethnic and cultural diversity, the global economy’s impact on California (and vice versa), and the emphasis on political involvement as an essential component of achieving the California Dream this new edition continues a tradition of scholarly and practical coverage of California government. Professor and elected official Mona Field offers a unique insider’s view that engages and informs students.

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CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS TODAY
Twelfth Edition

This lively text offers clear and succinct coverage of California government and politics that will engage and inform students.

Mona Field, the book’s author, is both a college professor and an elected official in California and thus offers a unique insider's view into its political system. The twelfth edition continues the book's long-standing tradition of blending political data with economic, cultural, and demographic trends, analyzing the link between the economy and the political process, and encouraging political activism and the development of students’ own unique political views.

New to the Twelfth Edition

• "Debating the Issues" boxes promote critical thinking and debate by presenting and drawing students into contrasting views of important political issues facing the state.
• "Compared to California" boxes highlight unique aspects of the political structures and processes of California by comparing them to the federal system, other states, and other nations. Critical thinking questions stimulate class discussion.
• "Enjoying Media: Movies to See and Websites to Explore" sections at the end of each chapter list websites, popular films, and documentaries that illuminate various aspects of California’s politics, culture, and history.

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Visit the text’s companion website–created by the author–for access to an online study guide with chapter-by-chapter learning objectives, practice tests, Web links, and a variety of other learning tools.

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