New York's broken constitution : the governance crisis and the path to renewed greatness / edited by Peter J. Galie, Christopher Bopst, and Gerald Benjamin.

"This volume grew out of discourse at a number of conferences at the Rockefeller Institute of Government held over the past two decades."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Peter J. Galie and Gerald Benjamin -- Cleaning the constitution part I : institutions and rights / Peter J. Galie and Christopher Bopst -- Cleaning the constitution part II : public policies / Peter J. Galie and Christopher Bopst -- New york state's allegedly unified court system / Daniel L. Feldman and Marc C. Bloustein -- These seats may not be saved : a fair and rule-bound legislative reapportionment process / Jeffrey Wice and Todd A. Breitbart -- "Mixed messages" : the governor's message of necessity and the legislative process in New York / Peter J. Galie -- "Mind the gap" : the promise and limits of home rule in New York / Richard Briffault -- "Till debt do us part" : the opportunity for New York finance law to enter the twenty-first century / Kenneth Bond -- "The gift that keeps on giving" : New York's approach to gifts and loans of public money and credit / Christopher Bopst -- "Forever wild" : the treatment of conservation and the environment by the New York state constitution / Paul Bray -- Gaming the constitution : why New York's constitutional gambling prohibition does not prohibit gambling / Gerald Benjamin -- "All or nothing at all" : changing the constitution -- the reform dilemma / Gerald Benjamin -- Coda : should voters approve the 2017 ballot proposition calling for a constitutional convention in New York?

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