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...
""Introduction to Redisctricting: Perspectives for Latinos"" consolidates two previous conference pamphlets and emphasizes material especially pertinent to Latino concerns. For an introduction to redistricting a California citizen needs a brief...
A comparision of the offical 1983 redistricting plans for the State of California with the proposed Sabastiani redistricting plans for Congressional Districts.
A report on the California redistricting and reapportionment process, from 1951-1984. They spend time analyzing each political parties motivation for redistricting, as well as the legal and political ramifications of the reapportionment and...
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...
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...
In 1980, California voters passed Proposition 6, which set guidelines which the legislature must follow in the drawing of new district boundaries. After the passage of Proposition 6, the Rose Institute of State and Local Government conducted a...
In 1981, a coalition of Latino groups and activists banded together as "Californios for Fair Representation" (CFR) in order to push for additional representations for Latinos in accordance with their increased population. CFR rain straight into...
In 1992, the California Supreme Court drew new lines for Congressional districts in California. This document includes maps and statistics that visualize the changes and provide citizens an overview of the new political geography.
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,...
Other reformers endorse those same criteria, with one addition: a requirement (in
some form) for maximizing competitiveness.
The following analysis is based on the Rose Institute's review of the 1990s
redistricting in California, in which Assembly,...
