Burning Down the House -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Burning Down the House:The Politics of Higher Education Policy -- 2. The UC Governance and Decision-Making Structure:History and Context -- 3. The Context Shaping the Affirmative Action Contest at UC -- 4. Interest Articulation and the Illusion of Control -- 5. The New Politics of Governance -- 6. National Contest and Conflict -- 7. Contest, Resistance, and Decision -- 8. Aftermath -- 9. The End and the Beginning -- Appendix 1. SP-1 as Amended and Passed -- Appendix 2. SP-2 as Amended and Passed -- Notes