Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction State of Change: Colorado Politics in the Twenty-First Century 1
5. Chapter One Colorado: Sometimes Red and Sometimes Blue 19
6. Chapter Two What’s Going On? The Shifting Terrain of Federal Elections in Colorado 39
7. Chapter Three Colorado’s Central Role in the 2008 Presidential Election Cycle 67
8. Chapter Four Impact of Direct Democracy on Colorado State Politics 89
9. Chapter Five Colorado’s New Election Day World 115
10. Chapter Six The Colorado General Assembly: It Ain’t What It Used to Be 131
11. Chapter Seven How GAVEL Changed Party Politics in Colorado’s General Assembly 153
12. Chapter Eight Disparate Impact: Term Limits, Female Representatives, and the Colorado State Legislature 175
13. Chapter Nine One Thing after Another: Layers of Policy and Colorado’s Fiscal Train Wreck 195
14. Chapter Ten Financial Architecture of Post-Republican Colorado 217
15. Epilogue The State of Change Changes Again 235
16. Contributors 249
17. Index 251