Municipal government; City planning; Government policy; Economic policy
This object includes both a powerpoint and the report on the municipal finances of the 88 cities in Los Angeles County and selected major cities in the State of California. The purpose of the report is to provide detailed fiscal information about...
This study of the fiscal condition of the City of San Diego is one in an ongoing series of fiscal analyses conducted by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government. The report analyzes the finances of the City of San Diego in fiscal years...
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...
This document is a compilation of a conference packet given to attendees of the Rose Institute Conference entitled, ""Time to Draw the Line: 2001."" In this report, the Rose Institute primarily covers redistricting law, important cases, Census...
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...
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 report is meant to analyze the effects of ethnic gerrymandering and reapportionment on the Chicano community in California. It provides of an analysis of the effects of the reapportionment and gerrymandering on the Chicano community, in recent...
This document provides information and analysis of the reapportionment in the United States of America. It first gives a general outline of redistricting; then, it discusses the types of districting used in the different regions. It continutes to...
This doctoral dissertation studies the choices made in the redistricting process, as well as Hispanic representation in local jurisdictions, in California and Arizona.
This analysis by the Senate Office of Research (SOR) looks at the background, fiscal effects, and policy implications of each state proposition on the general election ballot and lists known supporters and opponents. SOR offers this analysis to...
This report by the Secretary of State analyzes campaign finance activity through September 30, 1992, for the 13 statewide measures on California's 1992 General Election ballot.
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...
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...
Redistricting (Election law); Gerrymandering; Gerrymandering United States
This document is a compilation based on three monographs; it describes and demonstrates the problem of partisan gerrymandering and offers solutions to it.
Redistricting (Election law); California Politics and government
This report by Leroy Hardy and Alan Heslop analyzes various California legislative districts and their impact on California politics since World War Two.
This document focuses on the gerrymander of 1961. The Democrat's had a heavy majority in both houses. However, Democratic seats did not nessecarily translate to Democratic votes. Kennedy and the Democratic party tried to give seats to more faithful...
This publication analyzes reapportionment and redistricting in ten classical democracies, one singl-party state with som attributes of a democracy (Mexico), and one totalitarian state.
