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
Category Archives: Redistricting
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
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
Redistricting and the 2007 Elections
As the blog of the National Council of State Legislatures, The Thicket, notes: In addition to who controls the legislature, and policy-setting, for the next four years in these states, these elections are interesting for two other big reasons. They set the table for the 2010 redistricting cycle. In fact, legislators elected in Louisiana, Mississippi… Continue Reading
Poizner, Term Limits, and Redistricting…
Dan Walters’ latest column in the Sacramento Bee on potential 2010 gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner: Poizner headed Schwarzenegger’s unsuccessful drive in 2005 to reform legislative and congressional redistricting and says that opposing Proposition 93 stems from the same reformist bent, pointing out that legislative leaders failed to make good on their promises to overhaul redistricting… Continue Reading
Statewide [redistricting] Database Updates
The Statewide [redistricting] Database hosted by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley made two changes to the site last week just in time for Halloween. They added some ghosts of redistricting initiatives past (as well as the current Voter’s FIRST Act) and redesigned their redistricting court case archive. Continue Reading
Election Reform in PS: Political Science and Politics
Via the handy Docuticker, “a daily update of new reports from government agencies, NGOs, think tanks, and other public interest groups,” I was alerted to the 2008 and Beyond: The Future of Election Reform in the States symposium in the October issue of PS: Political Science and Politics. The articles are brought to you free… Continue Reading
The Flip Side of Elections
Statewide reform plans, initiatives, and political battles at the highest of levels might get all the headlines, but The Salinas Californian announces: TODAY | CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE FOR MONTEREY PENINSULA COLLEGE REDISTRICTING, Villa Del Monte, 1670 Broadway, Seaside, 3 to 5 p.m., in community room. Forum on redistricting of board. The odd thing about all the… Continue Reading
Online Commentary on Latest Redistricting Initiative
As noted in the previous post, the Rose Institute has advised AARP, Common Cause, and the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce on redistricting issues. The three groups proposed a new redistricting reform initiative today. Click below for a round-up of online commentary. Continue Reading
Redistricting via Renaming
The OC Weekly Nazel Gazing blog says: You’ve heard of redistricting shenanigans? Well, here’s a new one: Without any publicity, Orange County’s Irvine area now may have two representatives in the state assembly! …the voters elected Chuck DeVore (pictured). But, according to the Republican Party of Orange County, “Diana DeVore” is the “State Assemblywoman.†At… Continue Reading