Constitutional Reform in California: Making State Government More Effective and Responsive

California's Constitutional Revision Commission assembled the state's leading scholars to investigate how the structure of the constitution affects state and local government. Their proposals for far-reaching and innovative reform incorporate ideas from across the political spectrum and form a benchmark for future debate about California governance.

Bruce E. Cain is professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the University of California Washington Center. Roger Noll is professor of economics emeritus at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.