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Religious Gerrymandering: A New Avenue for Redistricting Challenges?
Election Law Journal, 2023 Recently, the Supreme Court significantly limited review of partisan gerrymandering claims, closing the door to a substantial portion of redistricting challenges.
J. Rosen
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Understanding Significance Tests From a Non-Mixing Markov Chain for Partisan Gerrymandering Claims
Statistics and Public Policy, 2019 Recently, Chikina, Frieze, and Pegden proposed a way to assess significance in a Markov chain without requiring that Markov chain to mix. They presented their theorem as a rigorous test for partisan gerrymandering. We clarify that their ε-outlier test is
Wendy K. Tam Cho +1 more
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A Computational Approach to Measuring Vote Elasticity and Competitiveness
Statistics and Public Policy, 2020 The recent wave of attention to partisan gerrymandering has come with a push to refine or replace the laws that govern political redistricting around the country.
Daryl DeFord +2 more
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European Political Science Review, 2023 Electoral engineering strategies in majoritarian electoral systems, in particular the possibility to contain insurgent parties by manipulating electoral districts for partisan gain, are key determinants of parties’ positions on the adoption of ...
P. Emmenegger, A. Walter
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Przedsiębiorczość - Edukacja, 2018 Wyniki wyborów w Stanach Zjednoczonych z 2016 r. dla wielu Polaków były szokiem, gdyż część osób nie rozumie, na jakiej podstawie Hillary Clinton, która zdobyła więcej głosów w wyborach ogólnych, mogła przegrać walkę o prezydenturę z Donaldem Trumpem ...
Jakub Mateusz Łach
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Élections de 2020 aux États-Unis : des enjeux cartographiques renouvelés
EchoGéo, 2021 Starting out from the Fall 2020 elections in the United States, this article unpacks a few stakes of the cartography of the presidential and House of Representatives election results. The maps of results at the state level as well as the county level, in
Christine Zumello
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Parameterized Complexity of Gerrymandering
, 2023 In a representative democracy, the electoral process involves partitioning geographical space into districts which each elect a single representative. These representatives craft and vote on legislation, incentivizing political parties to win as many districts as possible (ideally a plurality). Gerrymandering is the process by which district boundaries
Andrew Fraser +2 more
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The Value of Strident Agnosticism: Dorothy Pawluch and the Endurance of Ontological Gerrymandering
The American sociologist, 2022 This paper reflects on the origins and subsequent reception of the paper “Ontological Gerrymandering: The anatomy of social problems explanations”, published in 1985.
S. Woolgar
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Mathematics of Nested Districts: The Case of Alaska
Statistics and Public Policy, 2020 In eight states, a “nesting rule” requires that each state Senate district be exactly composed of two adjacent state House districts. In this article, we investigate the potential impacts of these nesting rules with a focus on Alaska, where Republicans ...
Sophia Caldera +4 more
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A Multi-Criteria Pen for Drawing Fair Districts: When Democratic and Demographic Fairness Matter
Mathematics, 2020 Electoral systems are modified by individuals who have incentives to bias the rules for their political advantage (i.e., gerrymandering). To prevent gerrymandering, legislative institutions can rely on mathematical tools to guarantee democratic fairness ...
Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda +4 more
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