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Redistricting Game Interview
The Redistricting Game, created at the USC Annenberg Center, deserves all the accolades it has received over the past months. Over at the election reform outfit Why Tuesday, Jacob Soboroff, Executive Director and occasional contributor to L.A. Observed, points to a video interview with Lead Game Designer and Assistant Professor Chris Swain that “continues to… Continue Reading
Redistricting Reform Update
The following article is from our Fall, 2007 newsletter: Each year politicians promise to change the way California redistricts, and each year they fail to deliver. California and most other states let the legislature draw districts, essentially allowing politicians to decide who their voters are rather than letting the voters decide who they want to… Continue Reading
The Rose Enters the Blogosphere
The following article is from our Fall, 2007 newsletter: In the past few years a new word has entered our digital vocabulary: blog. Web logs are now as common as they are relevant. They are toppling the standard news structure and giving people and organizations a voice of their own. Fittingly, people are increasingly turning… Continue Reading
Local Election History: Berkeley, CA
Steven Finacom’s article in the Berkeley Daily Planet entitled “Berkeley in the 1932 Election” contains some interesting local election history from the days when Berkeley professors voted Republican—favoring Hoover over Roosevelt. Also during the 1932 election, however, “California, which had only one Democrat in Congress before the election, sent 11 Democrats out of 20 in… Continue Reading
Skelton on Redistricting Politics and Poizner
George Skelton’s Capitol Journal column on redistricting and Steve Poizner in today’s Los Angeles Times: But the Democrats’ biggest fumble was reneging on their promise to produce a redistricting reform that surrendered the Legislature’s gerrymandering power. Democratic leaders made that pledge in 2005 when beating back a redistricting measure championed by Poizner. The original idea… Continue Reading
Fastest & Slowest Growing House Districts
Check out the fastest and slowest growing House districts in James L.’s informative post at the Swing State Project (data from the Almanac of American Politics). As he says, “A simplistic analysis of this chart might walk away with the impression that GOP strength is expanding, while Dem-heavy populations in urban districts are shrinking. But… Continue Reading
Director’s Report: Dr. Ralph A. Rossum
The following article is from our Fall, 2007 newsletter: One of the principal reasons the Rose Institute has been so successful in educating our students in critical thinking skills, problem solving, presentation abilities, and the fundamentals of public policy is that we land major grants and contracts from real-life clients who expect that the research… Continue Reading
Dr. Steven Frates in The Press-Enterprise
From today’s article by Doug Haberman in the Press-Enterprise: Steve Frates, president of the Center for Government Analysis in Newport Beach and a senior fellow at the Rose Institute for State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College, said cities can and do curb growth by enacting land-use and zoning restrictions that limit density. Continue Reading
Douglas M. Johnson in San Gabriel Valley Tribune
From an article by Alison Hewitt in today’s San Gabriel Valley Tribune: The four-member majority all endorsed Herfert, but split 2-2 on their endorsement for the second seat. “If you split 2-2, you’ll split your supporters too,” said political expert Douglas Johnson, a fellow with the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont… Continue Reading