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State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 2022 During the most recent round of redistricting, many states have enacted a number of reforms to their mapmaking practices. One reform that has received increased attention in recent years is a ban on prison gerrymandering—the practice of counting ...
Ryan D. Williamson, Bridgett A. King
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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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Partisan Dislocation: A Precinct-Level Measure of Representation and Gerrymandering
Political Analysis, 2021 We introduce a fine-grained measure of the extent to which electoral districts combine and split local communities of co-partisans in unnatural ways. Our indicator—which we term Partisan Dislocation—is a measure of the difference between the partisan ...
Daryl R. DeFord +2 more
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Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
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Fighting fire with fire: the ethics of retaliatory gerrymandering
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2022 Focusing on the contemporary US context, this article examines the ethical quandaries raised by partisan gerrymandering, where constituency boundaries are manipulated for electoral benefit.
Gianni Sarra
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Mizan Law Review, 2021 The National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) had rejected the request to enable ethnic-Hararis who reside outside Harari Regional State to vote in the election of Harari National Council members.
Simeneh Kiros Assefa
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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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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng +2 more
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The Influence of Region of Interest Heterogeneity on Classification Accuracy in Wetland Systems
Remote Sensing, 2019 Classifying and mapping natural systems such as wetlands using remote sensing frequently relies on data derived from regions of interest (ROIs), often acquired during field campaigns.
Tedros M. Berhane +5 more
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