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This thesis explores the cataclysmic variables (CVs) found by the Palomar-Green (PG) survey. This is the first compilation of a statistically complete sample of CVs found by ultraviolet color excess, and not outburst behavior. Blue and red follow-up spectrophotometry suggests that 22 of 68 objects classified originally as CVs are hot subdwarfs. Cool companions may be mimicking CVs' flat energy distributions, although the possibility remains that some are face-on CVs. Spectra taken with the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite prove useful for distinguishing difficult cases. With the CV sample defined, the orbital periods for eleven systems are investigated with radial velocity studies. At 16th magnitude, CV number counts increase by 2.3 mag-I, although this may level off. The luminosity function is examined for the first time, and a trend toward higher space density at low luminosity is suspected. Outburst properties are compiled, and low-luminosity dwarf novae inflate the total space density to 6 × 10-6 pc-3. I describe all the PG CVs and candidate objects, and show spectra for most. This sample should be useful for population studies, such as measuring the space density with trigonometric parallaxes, or finding the fraction of eclipsing CVs. A new class of nova-likes, the SW Sextantis stars, is characterized by absorption events of the emission lines at spectroscopic phase 0.5, accompanied by large phase lags between the light curves and the radial velocity curves and strong high-excitation emission. There are at least six such CVs in this sample of 33, so this mysterious behavior must be common and not peculiar, as previously thought. Five of these six objects eclipse. Serendipitous results for individual CVs include finding low-frequency quasi-periodic variations in the radial velocity curve of the dwarf nova BZ Ursae Majoris. While erratic from epoch to epoch, these are too coherent to be pure noise. Another dwarf nova, HX Pegasi, is caught with time-resolved spectrophotometry on the rise to outburst. This is the second-ever such observation, and the first with red spectra. HX Pegasi is also confirmed as having a novel subdwarf-K red star.