The third rail of California politics / by Mark DiCamillo -- A watershed moment bridging FDR and Reagan / by John Fund -- Prop. 13 fever : how tax limitations spread / by Isaac Martin -- Coping through California's budget crises in light of proposition 13 / by David Gamage -- The evolution of Prop. 13 / by David Doerr -- Why has the Serrano-Prop. 13 connection become the conventional wisdom? / by William Fischel -- Proposition 13 and residential mobility / by Terri Sexton -- Re-assessing the fairness of market value taxation and proposition 13 / by Steven Sheffrin -- Proposition 13 thirty years later : what has it meant for governance and public services? / by Jean Ross.