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
Category Archives: Rose Report
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
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
California [local] Elections Data
Sacramento State put out an interesting press release yesterday in an attempt to inform people of the California Elections Data Archive at the Center for California Studies: Sacramento State’s California Election Data Archive makes it a lot easier to track voting trends in local races. Now, if only more people knew about the service. The… 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