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The Essential Role of Empirical Validation in Legislative Redistricting Simulation
Statistics and Public Policy, 2020 As granular data about elections and voters become available, redistricting simulation methods are playing an increasingly important role when legislatures adopt redistricting plans and courts determine their legality.
Benjamin Fifield +3 more
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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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Partisan Gerrymandering and Turnout
, 2023 How does partisan gerrymandering affect turnout for US House elections? Common measures of gerrymandering are a function of turnout, which makes assessments of the impacts on turnout difficult. We present evidence from two natural experiments.
Urban, Carly +2 more
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Gerrymandering the politics of redistricting in the United States
, 2021 "A rigorous exposé of the practice of gerrymandering and its impact on American democracy"-
Medvic, Stephen K.
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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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The Effect of Gerrymandering on Voter Turnout [PDF]
The relationship between partisan gerrymandering and voter participation has still not been fully understood. Although it is clear that there are many factors that affect voter participation, the effect of gerrymandering on voter participation still has ...
Blaskowsky, Alexa T.
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Separating Effect From Significance in Markov Chain Tests
Statistics and Public Policy, 2020 We give qualitative and quantitative improvements to theorems which enable significance testing in Markov chains, with a particular eye toward the goal of enabling strong, interpretable, and statistically rigorous claims of political gerrymandering.
Maria Chikina +3 more
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The gerrymander sequence, or A348456
Advances in Applied Mathematics, 2023 26 pages, 13 ...
Anthony J. Guttmann, Iwan Jensen
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The Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927–1929
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Royal Commission on the Constitution (1927–1929) is a little‐remembered event in Australian political, policy and legal history, which produced—in the words of the constitutional law scholar Geoffrey Sawer—‘a useful student's textbook and a minor alteration in the Judiciary Act’.
Carolyn Holbrook
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