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...
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
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 paper outlines strategic considerations for establishing single member districts. The underlying thesis of this paper is that due to the expanding size of cities, the complexity of issues, expensive electioneering, minority...
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.
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...
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...
This report surveys and chronicles the Chicano experience in reapportionment and redistricting from 1960 to 1980. At the end of the report, the report gives a conclusion on results and policy recommendations for the Chicano community.
This report introduces the history and practice of redistricting, with special attention to California, and provides an overview of various proposals for the reform of redistricting.
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 book discusses the political histories and current politcal directions of the most populous state in the union: California. It discusses voting patterns in various locations such as coastal regions, the bay area and the los angeles area. This...
This paper is intended as an introductory outline and check-list for decision makers in local governments that are making single-member districts for the first time of that are realigning their existing districts.
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...