The Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs

Responsible Liberalism
Edmund G. "Pat" Brown and Reform
Government in California, 1958-1967

Edited by Martin Schiesl

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction
Pat Brown: The Making of a Reformer
Martin Schiesl

PART 1
SOCIAL RELATIONS AND SOCIAL ISSUES
1. Demographic Transformations of California in the Post-War Era: 1950-1970
Ali Modarres

2. Partisans and Policy Makers: Women Activists and Women's Issues During the Pat Brown Years
Jacqueline R. Braitman

3. Brokering the 1960 Master Plan: Pat Brown and the Promise of California Higher Education
John Aubrey Douglass

4. The Struggle for Equality: Racial Reform and Party Politics in California,
1950-1966
Martin Schiesl

PART II
PARTY POLITICS AND POLITICAL RELATIONS
5. It's Ideas that Matter: Pat Brown Reorganizes California's Executive Branch
Ron Seyb

6. Jesse and Pat: A Creative Conflict in California Political History, 1955-1966
Jackson Putnam

7. Minority Electoral Representation Patterns during the Pat Brown Years
Fernando J. Guerra

8. Up From Liberalism: Pat Brown, Ronald Reagan, and the 1966 Gubernatorial Election
Matthew Dallek

9. The Revitalization of the Right: The GOP in California during the Brown Years
Denise Spooner

PART III
INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN CALIFORNIA
10. Transportation in an Era of Transition: The Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Years
John A. Kirchner and Walter E. Rice

11. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown and the California Water Project
Harvey P. Grody

12. The Politics of Achieving Consensus on California Water Projects
Rita Schmidt Sudman

Pat Brown: The Making of a Reformer (79 KB, PDF)
by Martin Schiesl