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 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...
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...
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.
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.
Redistricting; California Legislature; Statistical analysis
This report provides information on and illustrates the defects of the Senate redistricting plan passed by the Legislature (S.B. 287) on September 16, 1991 and subsequently vetoed by Governor Wilson
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...
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.
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...
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...
This doctoral dissertation studies the choices made in the redistricting process, as well as Hispanic representation in local jurisdictions, in California and Arizona.
This conference packet includes information on the 1981 confernce hosted by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government and background information on redistricting. The background information, focusing on the context of the 1980 elections 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...
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...
This paper is a study of the politics of redistricting. The central thesis is that redistricting struggles are a function of two party competition. Chapter 1 identifies the significance of redrawing legislative district boundaries and points out...
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...
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...
