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State Politics & Policy Quarterly
Redistricting is often a hotly contested affair within states as the party in power attempts to maximize its chances for electoral success through injecting partisanship into the process.
Ryan D. Williamson, Florian Justwan
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Redistricting is often a hotly contested affair within states as the party in power attempts to maximize its chances for electoral success through injecting partisanship into the process.
Ryan D. Williamson, Florian Justwan
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Empirical Power Analysis of a Statistical Test to Quantify Gerrymandering
arXiv.orgGerrymandering is a pervasive problem within the US political system. In the past decade, methods based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling and statistical outlier tests have been proposed to quantify gerrymandering and were used as evidence in ...
Ranthony A. Clark +3 more
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Auditing for Gerrymandering by Identifying Disenfranchised Individuals
Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, 2022Gerrymandering is the practice of drawing congressional districts to advantage or disadvantage particular electoral outcomes or population groups. We study the problem of computationally auditing a districting for evidence of gerrymandering. Our approach
Jerry Lin +4 more
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States of Disarray: Cleaning Data for Gerrymandering Analysis
arXiv.orgThe mathematics of redistricting is an area of study that has exploded in recent years. In particular, many different research groups and expert witnesses in court cases have used outlier analysis to argue that a proposed map is a gerrymander.
Ananya Agarwal +4 more
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Bounds and Bugs: The Limits of Symmetry Metrics to Detect Partisan Gerrymandering
Election Law JournalWe consider two symmetry metrics commonly used to analyze partisan gerrymandering: the mean-median difference (MM) and partisan bias (PB). Our main results compare, for combinations of seats and votes achievable in districted elections, the number of ...
Daryl DeFord, Ellen Veomett
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Gerrymandering and the Limits of Representative Democracy
Social Science Research Network, 2022We assess the capacity of gerrymandering to undermine the will of the people in a representative democracy. Citizens have political positions represented on a spectrum, and electoral maps separate people into districts.
K. Yang, Alexander Zentefis
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Don’t Trust a Single Gerrymandering Metric
La MatematicaIn recent years, in an effort to promote fairness in the election process, a wide variety of techniques and metrics have been proposed to determine whether a map is a partisan gerrymander. The most accessible measures, requiring easily obtained data, are
T. Ratliff +2 more
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly
In the contemporary American political landscape, gerrymandering and the passage of anti-abortion legislation are intimately connected in what I call reproductive gerrymandering.
A. Basmajian
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In the contemporary American political landscape, gerrymandering and the passage of anti-abortion legislation are intimately connected in what I call reproductive gerrymandering.
A. Basmajian
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Gerrymandering and the Packing and Cracking of Medical Uninsurance Rates in the United States
Journal of Public Health Management and PracticeContext: Technological innovation and access to big data have allowed partisan gerrymandering to increase dramatically in recent redistricting cycles.
T. Rushovich +3 more
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Political research quarterly
The group-centered theory of party development provides a new theoretical framework for understanding early party development. Specifically, it provides a logical framework to understand why early state legislators were motivated to engage in partisan ...
Aric Dale Gooch
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The group-centered theory of party development provides a new theoretical framework for understanding early party development. Specifically, it provides a logical framework to understand why early state legislators were motivated to engage in partisan ...
Aric Dale Gooch
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