Archive for 'Rose Institute Archive & Database'

Dr. Rossum on the Gerrymandering Hall of Shame

Posted 17 December 2007 | By Dr. Ralph Rossum, Director | Categories: CA Political History, Demographic Analysis, Redistricting, Rose Institute Archive & Database | No Comments

The Rose Institute’s “Gerrymandering Hall of Shame” simply provides maps of California Assembly, Senate, and Congressional districts in 1991 and 2001. By looking at these maps, one can easily see how these districts changed because of the bipartisan gerrymandering of the state legislature in 2001. A veteran of over 30 years in Sacramento, [...]

Dr. Leroy Hardy Teaching Class on 2008 Election

Posted 05 November 2007 | By Matthew J. Peterson, Assistant to the Directors | Categories: CA Political History, Institute Friends and Associates, Press, Rose Institute Archive & Database | 1 Comment

As Jack Blecher reports at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at CSULB, Dr. Leroy Hardy is still teaching students after all these years.
Dr. Hardy was a longtime senior associate of the Institute, and over the years he has made generous gifts of endowment, books, and redistricting archive materials. Some of Dr. Hardy’s work with [...]

Partisan History

Posted 30 October 2007 | By Matthew J. Peterson, Assistant to the Directors | Categories: CA Political History, Institute Friends and Associates, Redistricting, Rose Institute Archive & Database | No Comments

Over at the California Progress Report, Bill Bagley maintains that Democrat Phil Burton saved the California Republican party in the 1960s. At the end of the article, the editors note that longtime friend of the Rose Institute, Tony Quinn, “had some problems with this piece”: