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Maximizing gerrymandering through ising model optimization [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 By using the Ising model formulation for combinatorial optimization with 0–1 binary variables, we investigated the extent to which partisan gerrymandering is possible from a random but even distribution of supporters.
Yasuharu Okamoto
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Ensuring generalized fairness in batch classification [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 In this paper, we consider the problem of batch classification and propose a novel framework for achieving fairness in such settings. The problem of batch classification involves selection of a set of individuals, often encountered in real-world ...
Manjish Pal +3 more
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Quantifying Gerrymandering in North Carolina
Statistics and Public Policy (Philadelphia, Pa ), 2020 By comparing a specific redistricting plan to an ensemble of plans, we evaluate whether the plan translates individual votes to election outcomes in an unbiased fashion.
Gregory Herschlag +2 more
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Gerrymandering or geography? How Democrats won the popular vote but lost the Congress in 2012
Research and Politics, 2014 This article assesses whether the antimajoritarian outcome in the 2012 US congressional elections was due more to deliberate partisan gerrymandering or asymmetric geographic distribution of partisans.
Nicholas Goedert
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Gerrymandering and computational redistricting. [PDF]
J Comput Soc Sci, 2019 Partisan gerrymandering poses a threat to democracy. Moreover, the complexity of the districting task may exceed human capacities. One potential solution is using computational models to automate the districting process by optimizing objective and open criteria, such as how spatially compact districts are.
Guest O, Kanayet FJ, Love BC.
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Seed-Fill-Shift-Repair: A redistricting heuristic for civic deliberation [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Political redistricting is the redrawing of electoral district boundaries. It is normally undertaken to reflect population changes. The process can be abused, in what is called gerrymandering, to favor one party or interest group over another, resulting ...
Christian Haas +5 more
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Türkiye’de Seçim Hileleri: Gerrymandering
İnsan&İnsan Bilim Kültür Sanat ve Düşünce Dergisi, 2022 Çağdaş demokrasilerin kalitesi, halkın iradesini özgürce temsil organlarına yansıtabilmeleri ve seçim hukukunun da demokrasinin evrensel değerlerine dayanması ile mümkün olabilir.
Ali Çiçek
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Analysis of Electoral Geography in West Azerbaijan Province (apportionment, Gerrymandering) [PDF]
نشریه جغرافیا و برنامهریزی, 2021 Introduction Geography explains the man-environment relationships and the geographical environments and spaces need the political organization of space is needed for optimal governance.
ZAHRA PISHGAHI FARD +1 more
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The Independent State Legislature Theory – the Underlying Ideas and the Threats
Krytyka Prawa, 2023 This article discusses the independent state legislature theory, which has been the subject of interest of an ever-growing group of American constitutionalists in recent years.
Paweł Króliczek
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An Impossibility Theorem for Gerrymandering [PDF]
The American Mathematical Monthly, 2018 7 pages, 1 ...
Boris Alexeev, Dustin G. Mixon
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