![]() | The City at Stake: Secession, Reform, and the Battle for Los Angeles Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Politics and government; Los Angeles County (Calif.) -- Politics and government; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Charters; Secession -- California -- Los Angeles County; Secession -- California -- Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race; The City at Stake tells the dramatic story of how the nation's second-largest city completed a major reform of its government in the face of a deeply threatening movement for secession by the San Fernando Valley. How did Los Angeles, a diverse city with an image of unstructured politics and fragmented government, find a way to unify itself around a controversial set of reforms? Raphael J. Sonenshein is Professor of Political Science at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles (Princeton). Between 1997 and 1999, he served as Executive Director of the City of Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission. |
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