This document is a compilation of a conference packet given to attendees of the Rose Institute Conference entitled, ""Time to Draw the Line: 1991."" In this report, the Rose Institute primarily covers redistricting law, important cases, Census...
This is a summary of California Initiatives in all elections from 1966-2002. It includes a summary of the text and intent of the initiatives and details on the results of the measures in elections.
The career professionalization of members of the U.S. House of Representatives has been influenced by an assortment of historical, socio-economic and political factors rooted both within the congressional institution and members' home state...
House of Representatives (U.S); Californians; California; Capitol Hill (Washington, D.C.); Bibliography; Elections; Districts; Voting; Representatives in Congress (United Statess); Research
This research bibliography lists sources related to the study of the California State Delegation in the United States Congress. These souces include profiles of individual representatives, general references about Congressional districts and...
Intense partisan conflict over redistricting in the period 1980-1990 brought four reform
initiatives to the ballot: summaries are available in Part I, below.1 In the past few
months, apparently stimulated by the success of the recall initiative,...
This document offers a short, non-technical summary of some of the major features of the law, politics, and technology of redistricting and their effects on redistricting in the 1980s. It also comments on possible future developments in the...
Since the election of November 1990, the electronic and print media have devoted increasing attention to the background information about redistricting and reapportionment. This essays in this volume are intended to increase public awareness of how...
This paper outlines strategic considerations for establishing single member districts. The underlying thesis of this paper is that due to the expanding size of cities, the complexity of issues, expensive electioneering, minority...
Watsonville (Calif.) Newspapers; Voting rights United States History; law;
This document is a compilation of newspaper clippings regarding the Watsonville Voting Rights decision and a bibliography of other voting rights cases in the 1980s. The case at hand is the Gomez v. City of Watsonville case.
The Rose Institute of State and Local Government is pleased to submit this report to the City of Fort Lauderdale on a plan to establish four single-member council districts. The report analyzes the history of districting in Fort Lauderdale as well...
This document is one of a series published by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government on the redistricting process, both in California and nationally. It consolidates some previous conference pamphlets and emphasizes material especially...
California entered the union in 1850 and began a development that has typically been onward and upward. This study looks at one facet of its development --representation and its institutional manifestations in terms of reapportionment and...
This study explores the origin and history of the gerrymander, types of gerrymandering, gerrymandering and the use of technology, the threat of the gerrymander to representational democracy, and possible solutions to this threat.
This is a conference packet from the Rose Institute's Local Representation Problems and Prospects conference. It includes a shedule, conference information, and some documents on redistrcting. The documents on redistricting include a primer for...
Conference agenda from a joint conference of the Rose Institute and the Institute of Social Justice on Latino empowerment, reapportionment, redistricting, and politics.
Dr. Richard Morrill and the Rose Institute of State and Local Government created a model redistricting plan for the 1981 California redistricting. The plan used the best available good government criteria to create majority-minority districts and...
Proposition 6 was approved by the voters of California in June of 1980. Although its language is fairly straightforward, this simplicity belies a long history of reapportionment law on the state and federal levels. Furhter, it is the product of...
This report from the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College finds that Proposition 77 would result in a significant increase in competition in California elections. The Institute's research finds that Proposition...
