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California is at the forefront of demographic changes that are likely to affect other parts of the United States and bear important political consequences. The demographic and political landscape of the state has dramatically changed over the past few decades, with the growth in the number of Asian and Latino elected officials and the decline in Black political representation. However, California's statewide electorate does not reflect the diversity of California's population. In that context, the new census and redistricting bears serious potential consequences and should stir much debate. Adapted from the source document.

Focuses on the question of by what means the goals of section 5 of the Voting Rights Act were made successful, specifically via the law, & how these laws have created fear or confusion at times, though well-meaning in intent, while at the same time a desire for more clear-cut, narrower provisions have been sought by other parties who seek conciseness within the law, including those who redraw district boundaries. When multiple objection letters are sent to a district, the question is raised as to whether a line-drawer has purposely sidestepped the law or whether the law is simply too vague or complex to be followed to the Department of Justice's standards, & so researches this question, coming to the conclusion that the laws may be simply too difficult to understand. With the question of one person, one vote, census standards are examined, along with problems such as undercounting segments of a given population, of which poor & disadvantaged communities fall under; yet this question seems to have proven fairly simple & easy to comply with, whereas the question of complexity, flexibility, & specificity of laws regarding gerrymandering continue to be elusive. Figures, References. J. Fullmer

"The impact of policy changes on the local delivery of services has been overlooked in several decades of largely unsuccessful efforts to reform welfare. This article uses one case of state-level welfare reform in the early 1990s to examine the implementation of policy changes in local welfare offices. Direct observation of transactions between welfare workers and clients suggests that policy reforms were not fully implemented by street-level bureaucrats. The instrumental transactions that continued to dominate interactions with clients were consistent with processing claims and rationing scarce resources, but they were poorly aligned with new policies aimed at changing the services and message delivered to welfare clients. The failure to fully implement reforms on the frontlines has implications for the achievement of policy objectives and for equity in service provision. Implementation issues will have even greater urgency as welfare is devolved from federal to state governments." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))