From an article by Ryan Orr in today’s Victorville Daily Press: “I bet a third of the people didn’t even know there was an election,†said Doug Johnson, a fellow at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government. *** Continue Reading
Category Archives: Rose Report
2008 Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey
The following article is from our Fall, 2007 newsletter: The 2007-2008 school year marks a pivotal moment for the Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey, as the management team continues to develop last year’s improvements. In fall 2006, student manager Emily Pears and Kosmont Manager Ritika Puri succeeded in cutting data collection time in… Continue Reading
Elections: Minority Mobilization
The California Progress Report points out an interesting new study sponsored by the James Irvine Foundation entitled New Experiments in Minority Mobilization. From the Executive Summary: Best Practices To date, the California Votes Initiative has uncovered or confirmed the following best practices for voter mobilization efforts in low-propensity voter communities. 1. Campaigns should ideally use… Continue Reading
Financial Compensation for Organ Donors?
The Sacramento Bee reports on California hospitals that have greatly increased organ donations from recently-deceased patients. The paper quotes a family care coordinator who links suitable donors in the Sacramento region with patients awaiting transplants. “The hospitals are absolutely instrumental in setting the circumstances so that the best possible outcomes for donation are there. The… Continue Reading
Rose Report Joins BNN
Thanks to BlogNetNews for adding us to their California network. Continue Reading
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