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Revista Cartográfica, 2023 Sometimes there are clear and natural limits to the scope of action of a science, and in other cases they are simply convenient ones. Geographic Information Science (GISc) is a transversal science, with contacts with all geosciences but also with ...
Carlos López-Vázquez +2 more
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Widespread partisan gerrymandering mostly cancels nationally, but reduces electoral competition. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Significance Legislative redistricting plans determine how voters’ preferences are translated into representatives’ seats. Political parties may manipulate the redistricting process to gain additional seats and insulate incumbents from electoral ...
Kenny CT +4 more
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Gerrymandering individual fairness [PDF]
Artificial Intelligence, 2022 Individual fairness, proposed by Dwork et al., is a fairness measure that is supposed to prevent the unfair treatment of individuals on the subgroup level, and to overcome the problem that group fairness measures are susceptible to manipulation, or gerrymandering.
Tim Räz
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International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2023 We study the computational complexity of the map redistricting problem (gerrymandering). Mathematically, the electoral district designer (gerrymanderer) attempts to partition a weighted graph into k connected components (districts) such that its candidate (party) wins as many districts as possible. Prior work has principally concerned the special cases
Dippel, J. +4 more
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Abduction and Deduction in Dynamical Cognitive Science
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This paper reviews the recent history of a subset of research in dynamical cognitive science, in particular that subset that allies itself with the sciences of complexity and casts cognitive systems as interaction dominant, noncomputational, and nonmodular. I look at this history in the light of C.S.
Anthony Chemero
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Teoria autonomicznej legislatywy stanowej – istota i zagrożenia
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. This theory deals primarily with state legislatures’ power – derived directly
Paweł Króliczek
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Gerrymandering Hypothesis in the Italian Constituencies
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2019 Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries. The term gerrymandering has negative connotations. Two principal tactics are used in gerrymandering: “cracking” (
Fabio Ratto Trabucco
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Electoral system of Slovakia: Perspective of political geography [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Geografski institut "Jovan Cvijić", 2014 More than twenty years after fall of communism Slovakia has experienced unprecedented fall of electoral turnout. It is important to look into the problem of how low turnout may impact ability to get elected in different stages of elections.
Mikuš Roman, Gurňák Daniel
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Who Is My Neighbor? The Spatial Efficiency of Partisanship
Statistics and Public Policy, 2020 Relative to its overall statewide support, the Republican Party has been over-represented in congressional delegations and state legislatures over the last decade in a number of US states.
Nicholas Eubank, Jonathan Rodden
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Medicaid Managed Care Plan Alignment With State Substance Use Disorder Treatment Coverage Requirements. [PDF]
Milbank QPolicy Points States contract with Medicaid managed care plans to administer benefits for roughly 70 million Medicaid enrollees, yet little is known about how plan benefit policies for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment medications align with state requirements.
Feltus SR +6 more
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