The Rose Institute of State and Local Government is a research institute based out of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. Founded in 1973 by businesswoman, lawyer, feminist and activist Edessa Rose, the Rose Institute has developed a reputation as one of California's premier research institutes. The Rose Institute is particularly well known for its expertise on elections, demographic, fiscal and public policy analysis.
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The Rose Institute has developed a reputation as a leader in fiscal and policy analysis and survey research.
For both public and private clients, the Institute: performs economic impact studies with the goal of clarifying the budgetary impact of particular policy proposals; handles survey projects from start to finish, designing the questionnaire, collecting the data, and assessing the policy implications; and works with cities, counties, and other entities to evaluate present policy and recommend future fiscal and policy changes.
These projects have addressed a range of topics, including tribal sovereignty, transportation, housing, and water quality and availability. In one recent project, Rose Institute researchers conducted a comparative analysis of public services in California’s largest counties for Voice of San Diego, a prominent online news organization. The Institute also conducts research on legal and constitutional issues, such as the impact of a full-time legislature and the history of initiatives in California and other states, resulting in the Miller-Rose Institute Initiative Database—the most complete online database of voter-approved statewide ballot initiatives: [initiatives.rosereport.org].
While the Rose Institute analyzes state and local government policies throughout California and the nation, it places special emphasis on Southern California.
The Rose Institute conducts fiscal, regulatory, and survey analysis for counties, municipal governments, Native American tribal governments, news organizations, and other businesses across Southern California—from Los Angeles and Orange County to the Inland Empire and San Diego. Through this work, we have developed a sophisticated understanding of this dynamic region’s diverse political and economic institutions.
In a joint venture with the [[Lowe Institute of Political Economy]], the Rose Institute recently launched the [[Inland Empire Center for Economics and Public Policy]]. The Inland Empire is one of the fastest growing places in the United States and now has a larger population than 24 states. The Center publishes Inland Empire Outlook, an economic and political newsletter, and has created new indices that will become leading measures of the Inland Empire’s economic activity. These indices, along with specialized public policy analysis and modeling, will be published regularly in print and online, and presented at conferences in the Inland Empire hosted jointly with the UCLA Anderson Forecast.
Especially noteworthy contracts in the Institute’s recent history include: research on representation conducted for the California Roundtable; work on juvenile justice codes performed by Professor Ralph Rossum for the US Department of Justice; fiscal analyses of Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside and Monterey Counties by Dr. Steven B. Frates; an atlas of South Central Los Angeles created for the Ford Foundation in the wake of the Watts riots; and survey and data work for the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership and the San Fernando Economic Alliance.