This report from the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College finds that Proposition 77 would result in a significant increase in competition in California elections. The Institute's research finds that Proposition...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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...
This document provides an in-depth background of districting and apportionment in the 1960s. It includes an overview of Congressional and State Assembly districts. It also includes analysis and state-by-state maps of the districts.
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...
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.
