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The Center for Governmental Studies (CGS), a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 1983, creates innovative political and media solutions to help individuals participate more effectively in their communities and governments. CGS is unique in its ability to combine several areas of expertise to: convene relevant stakeholders; conduct research and policy analysis; achieve consensus among diverse groups; and effectively use technology to gather, present and disseminate the information to a wide audience. |
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PolicyArchive is an innovative, new digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. It makes use of the power, efficiency, and economy of modern Internet technology to collect and disseminate research from various think tanks, universities, government agencies, and foundations. It offers a subject index, an internal search engine, useful abstracts, and email notifications of newly added research. PolicyArchive allows research users, policy makers, the media, and the public to quickly access the depth and breadth of research in various subject matters. It also provides a direct line of communication between research providers and end-users, thus increasing public awareness of an organization’s work and adding significant value to their research investment. |
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CGS commissioned "Online Signature Gathering for California Initiatives" (pdf) as part of its recently-released Democracy By Initiative (2nd Edition). More>> "How Parties Pick Nominees", a .pdf of Bob Stern's recent presentation to the League of Women's Voters of Santa Monica. New CGS Report, Termed Out: Reforming California’s Legislative Term Limits, comprehensively analyzes California’s Term Limits and Proposition 93... More>>Mapping Public Financing in American Elections provides a comprehensive map-view of state and local public financing programs in the United States... More>>CalHealthReform.org offers news, insight and analysis about health reform legislation in California... More >>New Report From CGS Finds CA Prop 34 Fails to Deliver... More>> |
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Ballot initiatives have reshaped the lives of California citizens for almost 100 years, yet the initiative process itself has become outmoded, inflexible, confusing, complex, difficult for citizens to use and excessively dominated by money, concludes a new report, Democracy by Initiative: Shaping California's Fourth Branch of Government, issued by the Center for Governmental Studies (CGS). California must update its system of "direct democracy" to bring it into the 21st Century. Reforms are needed to help citizens draft, circulate and vote more effectively and responsibly on initiatives that can dramatically affect the future of the state.
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