Joe Mathews
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| Organization: | Democracy Local |
| Role: | Founder, Publisher |
| Location: | Los Angeles, California |
| Education: | Harvard University |
Joe Mathews is a political journalist based in California. Mathews is the founder of Democracy Local, a publication describing itself as "a Planetary Publication of, for and by Everyday People Governing Themselves."[1][2]
Biography
Mathews obtained a bachelor's degree in social studies from Harvard University in 1995. He worked as a reporter with The Baltimore Sun until 2000, when he took a job reporting on the U.S. Department of Justice for the Wall Street Journal. Later that year, Mathews joined the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times. In 2008, Mathews joined the New America Foundation as an Irvine senior fellow. Mathews is the author of The People's Machine (2006) and co-author of California Crackup (2010).[1]
As of September 2025, Mathews was a professor and senior director at Arizona State University, an editor and columnist with Zócalo Public Square, and a fellow at the Berggruen Institute. Mathews founded Democracy Local, an international publication publishing writing about democracy, in 2023.[1]
Work and activities
California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It
Mathews was the co-author, alongside Mark Paul, of the 2010 book California Crackup. The book examined California's history within the United States and the political trends within the state, arguing that California's politics had fallen off track. The book's second part outlined proposals for policy improvements, "including budgeting, remaking elections, and governing 'from the bottom up'."[3]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 LinkedIn, "Joe Mathews," accessed September 22, 2025
- ↑ International Democracy Community, "Democracy Local," accessed September 22, 2025
- ↑ University of California Press, "Review: CALIFORNIA CRACKUP: HOW REFORM BROKE THE GOLDEN STATE AND HOW WE CAN FIX IT, by Joe Mathews and Mark Paul and REMAKING CALIFORNIA: RECLAIMING THE PUBLIC GOOD, by R. Jeffrey Lustig," January 1, 2011
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