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...
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,...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Demographic surveys California; Latino Americans; Latino American History
The purpose of this Atlas is to show the locations of Latino American population concentrations in California and to chart the growth of the Latino community in the decade of the 1980s. The Atlas begins with a map of the entire state, reflecting...
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...
T. Anthony Quinn writes about the failure of one man-one vote from Reynolds v. Sims and its impracticality through examples in Texas and California. He argues that one man-one vote has not created equality and gerrymandering still limits...
Redistricting; California. Legislature. Assembly.; California. Legislature. Senate.; United States. Congress. House.
This report provides summary descriptions, statistics, and maps of the official 1983 redistricting maps for California congressional, state senate, and assembly district.
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...
A comparision of the offical 1983 redistricting plans for the State of California with the proposed Sabastiani redistricting plans for Congressional Districts.
