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Gerrymandering

open access: yes, 2013
In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is the political manipulation of legislative boundaries for partisan or incumbency-protection purposes. It is one of the oldest political expressions, traceable to the early days of the Republic, and still in current use.
Morini M, MORINI, MARCO
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Gerrymandering

2020
Gerald R Webster, Richard Morrill
exaly   +3 more sources

Gerrymandering

open access: yes, 2014
Tato bakalářská práce popisuje systém tvorby volebních obvodů zvaný gerrymandering. Práce je rozdělena na část teoretickou a praktickou. Teoretická část práce se zabývá vysvětlením systému, jeho historií a funkcí.
Šteflová, Svatava
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Priced Gerrymandering

Theoretical Computer Science, 2022
We initiate the study of the gerrymandering problem when changing the district of a voter incurs a certain cost. In this problem, the input is a set of voters having votes over a set of alternatives, a graph on the voters, a partition of voters into connected districts, a cost of every voter for changing her district, a budget, and a target winner.
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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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Gerrymandering

Educational Media Reviews Online, 2011
Distributed by Films Media Group, 132 West 31st St., 17th Floor, New York, NY 10001; 800-257-5126Produced by Green Film CompanyDirected by Jeff Reichert2010, DVD, color, 77 min. Beginning with the terse declaration, “Lines never happen by accident,” this film exposes the age-old practice of incumbents’ redistricting according to socio-economic, racial,
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Partisan gerrymandering

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
Bernard Grofman, Jonathan Cervas
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Gerrymandering Over Graphs

International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2018
In many real-life scenarios, voting problems consist of several phases: an overall set of voters is partitioned into subgroups, each subgroup chooses a preferred candidate, and the final winner is selected from among those candidates. The attempt to skew the outcome of such a voting system through strategic partitioning of the overall set of voters ...
Amittai Cohen-Zemach   +2 more
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Geography and the Gerrymander

American Political Science Review, 1918
The gerrymander is an American name for a political abuse, which, though by no means exclusively American, has been most widely practiced and generally tolerated in this country. It is a device for the partial suppression of public opinion that simulates agreement with democratic institutions.
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Developing a Comprehensive and Coherent Shape Compactness Metric for Gerrymandering

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021
Shipeng Sun
exaly  

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