Report Fiscal Realities: Budget Tradeoffs in California Government By Jon Sonstelie, Tracy Gordon, Patrick Murphy, Ping Zhang Jan 31, 2007 The authors of Fiscal Realities: Budget Tradeoffs in California Government examine California’s entire revenue and spending picture in a way different from traditional, program-based analyses. Through a broad budgetary lens, and by looking at years of public opinion surveys, they evaluate what it would take to make Californians’ stated desires for their state a reality. In many cases, doing so would be extremely expensive. Reducing class size so that teacher-student ratios match ratios in other states would cost California governments an additional $15 billion per year. What services would Californians be willing to forego to pay for this? The report should help spark a broad public conversation about the tradeoffs Californians make now and those they might have to make to attain the kind of California they want.
data set PPIC Statewide Survey: Special Survey on Public Attitudes and Fiscal Realities in Five Stressed States Nov 8, 2012
Statewide Survey PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Their Government By Mark Baldassare Oct 1, 2002 This is the twelfth survey in a series of large-scale public opinion polls that PPIC is conducting during the 2002 California election cycle. The purpose of the surveys is to develop an objective, in-depth profile of the social, economic, and political forces affecting public policy preferences and elections in California. Some findings of the current survey: Among likely voters, Governor Gray Davis leads Republican challenger Bill Simon by 10 points (41% to 31%), with no third-party candidate receiving more than 4 percent of the vote. Davis leads Simon in the San Francisco Bay Area (50% to 19%) and Los Angeles (47% to 25%), while Simon is ahead in the other Southern California counties (41% to 34%) and the Central Valley (41% to 33%). The majority of voters (59%) say the single debate between the major-party candidates helped them little or not at all in deciding who to support in the governor's race, while 21 percent were unaware that a debate even took place. Today, 60 percent of Californians approve of President Bush's overall performance in office. His approval rating has slipped significantly since January (80%). There is less support in California than in the nation as a whole for the president's handling of Iraq (51% vs. 58%).
Statewide Survey PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Their Government By Mark Baldassare Sep 1, 2002 This is the eleventh survey in a series of large-scale public opinion polls that will be conducted by PPIC during the 2002 California election cycle. The purpose of the surveys is to develop an objective, in-depth profile of the social, economic, and political forces affecting public policy preferences and elections in California. Some findings of the current survey: In the gubernatorial race, Gray Davis currently leads Bill Simon by 8 points (40% to 32%) among likely voters. Among voters who recall seeing TV ads by the candidates for governor, 69% say the ads are not helpful to them in deciding which candidate to support. Most voters (64%) say they are dissatisfied with the amount of attention the candidates are spending on the issues voters care about. Nearly two-thirds (61%) of all adults in California think that the current cases of wrongdoing among chief executives of major businesses represent a widespread problem rather than a problem of a few corrupt individuals.
blog post Desire for Action on Housing Contrasts with How Californians Want to Live By Dean Bonner Aug 8, 2023 Majorities of Californians favor the state easing environmental and land use restrictions to increase housing supply and support requiring localities to build their fair share of affordable housing. At the same time, an overwhelming majority say they would prefer living in a single-family detached home over living in a condominium or townhome.
Statewide Survey PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Their Government By Mark Baldassare Feb 20, 2004 This is the 43rd PPIC Statewide Survey and the 16th in a series of large-scale public opinion polls that PPIC is conducting on a periodic basis throughout California's election cycles. The purpose of this series is to develop an objective, in-depth profile of the social, economic, and political forces affecting public policy preferences and ballot choices in California. Some findings of the current survey At this time, all four propositions on the March 2nd primary ballot (55,56,57,58) face uncertain futures because many residents haven’t decided how they will vote. Since our January 2004 survey, California’s likely voters have catapulted John Kerry from fourth (6%) to first (56%) place among Democratic candidates. At this point, a Democrat nominee would get more votes (54%) than George W. Bush (37%) if the presidential election were held today. Majorities of likely voters approve of the way Senators Barbara Boxer (52%) and Dianne Feinstein (57%) are doing their jobs. The partisan gap is growing larger between Republicans and Democrats in California on issues such as abortion, the environment, immigrants, and gay and lesbian rights.
