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Campaign Finance
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Electricity Issues
Farmworkers
Funding Oregon
Homeless Youth
Household and Business Tax Burdens
Initiative System
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Juvenile Justice
K - 12 School Finance
Land Use
Mental Health
Redistricting
State Parks
Tax Myths and Facts
Tax Sound Bites
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study reports are available in print only
Redistricting in Oregon
A study of current redistricting processes and future possibilities; 2007.
Redistricting in Oregon (32 pgs; pdf)
Redistricting in Oregon (html)
Redistricting in Oregon Summary (4 pgs; pdf)
Oregon's Homeless Youth
Who are Oregon's homeless youth, who is responsible for them, and what services are available for them? Are there gaps in these services, and if so, what changes can be made? 2006.
Oregon's Homeless Youth Report (24 pgs; pdf)
Oregon's Homeless Youth Report (html)
Oregon's Homeless Youth Audio Presentation (summary) (17 min, MP3)
Complete Bibliography (6 pgs; pdf)
List of Interviewees and Contacts (4 pgs; pdf)
Oregon's Judiciary
Part 2 of the 2005-07 study of Oregon's Judiciary. Covers the challenges faced by the most poorly understood and least visible of the three branches of government; 2007.
The Oregon Judiciary: Challenges for the 21st Century (Part 2) (40 pgs; pdf)
The Oregon Judiciary: Challenges for the 21st Century (Part 2) (html)
Presiding Judges' Questionnaire
Trial Court Administrators' Questionnaire
Presents a
history and general overview Oregon's judiciary system; 2006.
An Overview of Oregon's Judiciary (Part 1) (14 pgs; pdf)
An Overview of Oregon's Judiciary (Part 1) (html)
The Trial Jury in Oregon's State Courts
Presents a general overview of a juror's role in Oregon
state trial courts; 2005.
The Trial Jury
in Oregon's State Courts (4 pgs; pdf)
The Trial Jury
in Oregon's State Courts (html)
Oregon Taxes:
Myths and Facts – 2005 (1 pg)
Oregon
Taxes: Myths and Facts (pdf)
Oregon
Taxes: Myths and Facts (html)
Tax Sound Bites
- 2005 (AUDIO mp3)
1 2
3 4
5
Funding Oregon: The Ins and Outs of State Finance
Helps Oregon citizens better understand the state's taxation
system; 2004.
Full Report
(20 pgs; pdf)
Full Report (html)
Summary: Oregon
and Its Taxes (2 pgs; pdf)
AUDIO: Full Report
and Summary (mp3)
Campaign Finance Reform
Purpose: to review the history of campaign finance reform in Oregon
and present options for reform; 2004.
Campaign
Finance Reform in Oregon (10 pgs; pdf)
Campaign Finance Reform in Oregon (html)
Understanding Oregon's Electricity Issues
Purpose: to trace the history of energy policy and review current
issues pertaining to electricity in Oregon; 2003.
Understanding
Oregon's Electricity Issues (8 pgs; pdf)
Understanding
Oregon's Electricity Issues (html)
Land Use: Progress
and Challenges
Purpose: to review the history, accomplishments and challenges to
Oregon's unique land use planning system; 2002.
Land Use: Progress
and Challenges (html)
Land Use: Progress
and Challenges (8 pgs; pdf)
Oregon's Initiative System
Purpose: to understand the initiative process and review current
issues in Oregon; 2001
Oregon's
Initiative System: Current Issues (html)
Oregon's
Initiative System: Current Issues (6 pgs; pdf)
Mental Health in Oregon
Purpose: to review the care system for the mentally ill and understand
recent changes to the system; 2001.
Mental
Health in Oregon in the 1990s and Beyond (html)
Mental
Health in Oregon in the 1990s and Beyond (4 pgs; pdf)
Farmworkers in
Oregon
Purpose: to understand the history and current issues of agriculture,
labor and immigration in Oregon; 2000.
Farmworkers
in Oregon (html)
Farmworkers
in Oregon (24 pgs; pdf)
Effects of Measure 11 on Juvenile Justice
Purpose: to understand how recent mandatory minimum sentence laws
have affected the juvenile justice system; 2000.
Effects
of Measure 11 on Juvenile Justice in Oregon (html)
Effects
of Measure 11 on Juvenile Justice in Oregon (4 pgs; pdf)
Shift in Oregon
Household and Business Tax Burdens
Purpose: to understand how recent voter-approved tax changes have
affected the relationship between household and business tax burdens; 1999.
Shift in
Oregon Household and Business Tax Burdens (html)
Shift in
Oregon Household and Business Tax Burdens (4 pgs; pdf)
K - 12 School
District Financing
Purpose: to understand changes initiated by tax reforms in the 1990s; 1999.
K - 12
School Finance Study (html)
K - 12
School Finance Study (6 pgs; pdf)
A Study of Oregon
State Parks
Purpose: to understand the history and current issues of Oregon's
state parks system
Oregon State
Parks; Part I (html)
Oregon State Parks; Part 1 (7 pgs; pdf)
Review of funding, history, and mission of parks, March 1998
Oregon State
Parks; Part II (html)
Funding alternatives and future planning for state parks, October 1998
Election Laws Study
Election
Laws Study– 1996 (12 pgs)
Purpose: to review registration, elections, and the voting process;
covers vote-by-mail, voter education, and election officials
Water
Water Currents in Oregon - 1985 (8 pgs; pdf)
To order one of the following
printed studies, please contact
us.
Print only:
Children at Risk - 1995
Seismic Risks Study - 1994
Education Reform in Oregon: a Blueprint for the 21st Century
- 1993
Adult Mental Health in Oregon
- 1986 (Supplement - 1990)
Energy, Ecology, Economics: Oregon Offshore Development
Issues - 1990
Oregon School Finance: Solving the Dilemma
- 1988
Schools Project Report of Round I & II - 1988
Public Post-Secondary Education in Oregon
- 1984
Adult Corrections in Oregon II
- 1983
Public Policy on Reproductive Choices
- 1982
Oregon's Emergency Board: One of a Kind
- 1982
Economic Development and Revenue Bonds
- 1982
Who Will Elect the President? The Electoral College System
- 1980
You and Your National Government
- 1980
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