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 research report intends to provide an overview of the demographic and political characteristics of California's Congressional, State Senate, and State Assembly districts, together with profiles of its counties and major cities. The data...
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.
This report by the Rose Institute of State & Local Government introduces redistricting techniques and technology (as of 1965 through the 1980s) and details the tasks involved in a typical redistricting project.
The essays in this volume, produced through the cooperation of some 58 researchers from across the United states, are inteded to increase public awareness of how redistricting has been performed historically in each of the 50 states and how the...
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,...
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 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 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...
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...
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 report represents the beginning of development of a clear and comprehensive understanding of the costs ivolved with running government in Orange County.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.