Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) Census Maps; Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) Ethnic relations; Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) Maps; Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) Maps, Pictorial; Los Angeles Metropolitan Area...
This report by the Rose Institute of State & Local Government provides detailed spatial information about the demographic composition, socioeconomic and political characteristics, and crime statistics of South Central Los Angeles. It was especially...
This is a general guide to redistricting and reapportionment in the United States with a focus on California. It is intended to provide legal and historical context to more specific research. The volume provides summaries of major cases related...
This study examines the experiences of non-legislative reapportionment commissions in other states to determine whether this form of reapportionment is in the best interests of representative government in California.
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.
Latino Americans; Voting Rights; Districts; Census; Local Elections; Representation
This draft statement outlines a strategy for the 1990's for Latino empowerment. It discusses the mission/purpose, organizational structure, activities, and resources needed for this movement. The statement emphasizes the importance of the growing...
This document traces the history of reapportionment in Pennsylvania. It includes details and analysis of reapportionment from statehood to the 1990s. The focus of this document is on the Legislative Reapportionment Commission, a commission set up...
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...
Districts; Election statistics; Representatives in Congress (United States);
This document traces the political history of Representative Richard Lehman of California's 19th Congressional district. It includes a brief biography, voting records and statistics, campaign contribution information, maps of the district, election...
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...
The November 6, 1990 Ballot offers a dramatic series of competing and contradictory proposals addressing pesticide use, timber harvesting, tax increases, the length of time state officeholders may serve and other fundamental and far reaching...
Richard G. Nixon analyzes the effect of earlier Supreme Court cases and their subsequent interpretation on the effects of gerrymandering and evaluates whether one man-one vote has achieved its goals of creating fairness and equity. From...
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 report represents the beginning of development of a clear and comprehensive understanding of the costs ivolved with running government in Orange County.
This study, conducted by the analyzes the results of the November 1990 California election on approved initiatives which include Proposition 140 (term limits, legislative operating budget), Proposition 121 (quake fix exemptions), Proposition 132...
National Weather Service (U.S.); Ventura County (Calif.); Ventura County (Calif.) History, Local
This report by Milton Kramer is a case study of the National Weather Services' 1994 installation of a radar tower in the upper Ojai valley (at Sulphur Mountain) and citizens' challenges to the tower siting.
