Grabbed a list of initiatives off the wonderful California Initiative Review web site and divided it roughly along issue categories to get an idea of the areas of policy that have had different propositions succeed and fail over the years. The data was supposed to be all initiatives since Nov. 1998 but some years were missing off the CIR website and it generally seemed incomplete - gotta double check that with the Cali Secretary of State when I get a chance. I didn't work too hard to categorize each proposition yet either because I just want to get an idea of where to narrow my focus. Some of the propositions seemed like they could be in more than one issue category, i.e. environmental AND property rights. I didn't look at the actual bills yet so if I decide to use this stuff it will need to be more officially categorized, likely according to some political scientist's method described in some paper somewhere....not gotta do all that 'till I decide if its even the direction I'm going in. I bet a more complete/exact version of this kind of chart is already published, I'll find it if I need it.....
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