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Beyond Gerrymandering: A Structural Crisis of the American Electoral System

New Political Science, 2023
Two key threats facing American democracy today are gerrymandering and voter suppression. In this article, I argue that both of these threats are a direct consequence of the US using a single-member district (SMD) electoral system.
Bernard Tamas
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A State-Level U.S. House Election Forecast Model for 2022: Modeling the Potential Effects of Gerrymandering

Polity, 2023
This model was developed specifically for the Midterm Election Forecasting Roundtable at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting in Montréal. While most House forecast models generate forecasts either at the district level, or the aggregate number of seats won by a
Jay A. DeSart
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The influence of gerrymandering on abortion policy in the United States

Routledge Open Research, 2023
Background: When the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) overruled a five-decade old precedent and gave states the unfettered power to regulate or ban abortion, it did so while proclaiming the decision would return ...
David Niven
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Gerrymandering in Municipal Demarcation Processes in South Africa: Selected Cases of the Collins Chabane and JB Marks Local Municipalities

Politeia, 2023
This article focuses on political processes, specifically redistricting, which is the political process of redrawing electoral boundaries within which people contest local government elections.
M. Netswera, Valiant A. Clapper
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Information Gerrymandering in Elections

Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, 2023
Xiaoxue Liu   +5 more
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Little House (Seat) on the Prairie: Compactness, Gerrymandering, and Population Distribution

Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2022
Gerrymandering is the process of creating electoral districts for partisan advantage, allowing a party to win more seats than what is reasonable for their vote.
A. Borodin   +3 more
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Epistemic gerrymandering: ESG, impact investing, and the financial governance of sustainability

Review of International Political Economy
Finance plays an increasing role in the global governance of sustainability. To explain the rise of finance, scholarship is increasingly turning to the financial sector as a producer of policy-relevant knowledge.
Philipp Golka
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A Comparison of Precinct and District Voting Data Using Persistent Homology to Identify Gerrymandering in North Carolina

arXiv.org
Gerrymandering is one of the biggest threats to American democracy. By manipulating district lines, politicians effectively choose their voters rather than the other way around.
Ananya Shah
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Crowdsourcing Perceptions of Gerrymandering

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2022
Gerrymandering is the manipulation of redistricting to influence the results of a set of elections for local representatives. Gerrymandering has the potential to drastically swing power in legislative bodies even with no change in a population’s political views.
Benjamin Kelly, Inwon Kang, Lirong Xia
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Seeing red: How gerrymandering emotionally mobilizes turnout

Political Psychology
Partisan gerrymandering threatens the health of democracy by manipulating formal institutions away from majority rule. In the conventional formulation, institutional manipulation mechanically alters political outcomes.
H. Izatt
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