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Gerrymandering individual fairness

Artificial Intelligence
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.
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Subnational Border Reforms and Economic Activity in Africa

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 88, Issue 5, Page 1203-1218, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Using GIS methods, we identify territories in Africa affected by subnational border reforms between 1992 and 2013. Descriptive statistics reveal that these territories differed from other African regions across several key dimensions. For example, these territories were more populous and exhibited greater ethnic diversity.
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sebastian Blesse
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Adolescent Daily Critical Action During the 2024 US Election

Journal of Social Issues, Volume 82, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The 2024 US election was stressful. Taking critical actions (i.e., behaviors that address social or economic inequality) may reduce or exacerbate election stress and negative emotions. This daily diary study, spanning 20 consecutive days throughout the 2024 election, takes an exploratory and descriptive approach to understand adolescents ...
Jacqueline Cerda‐Smith, Sholeh Najafian, Shevaun D. Neupert, Kelly Lynn S. Mulvey   +3 more
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What Voting Power Cannot Be

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 548-562, September 2026.
ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
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Türkiye’de Seçimlerde Stratejik Taksimat

İçtimaiyat
Demokrasi, Abraham Lincoln ’ün ifadesiyle: “Halkın, halk tarafından, halk için yönetimi” olarak tanımlanabilir. Temsili demokrasi, halkın egemenliğini kendi seçtiği temsilciler aracılığıyla kullandığı bir demokrasidir.
İbrahim Yıldız, Abdullah Elmas
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Navigating the Power of the Purse—Fiscal Irresponsibility, Process Failures, and the New Constitutional Stress Test

Public Administration Review, Volume 86, Issue 5, Page 1255-1264, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT The federal government, and its budget process, are facing unprecedented challenges. The federal debt is at historic levels, the process is in disarray, and the constitutional balance of powers is being challenged as never before. The debt, driven by growth in entitlement spending, stands at $38 trillion and is projected to continue to grow if
Carolyn Bourdeaux, G. William Hoagland, Philip G. Joyce, Thomas S. Kahn, Elaine Y. Lu   +4 more
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Maintenir une homogénéité culturelle et linguistique : mise en perspective diachronique des stratégies de découpages territoriaux de la périphérie flamande de Bruxelles-Capitale

L'Espace Politique, 2020
This paper is a continuation of the scientific literature dealing with the politico-linguistic divisions of Belgian national territory. Through a diachronic analysis, it aims at analysing its most recent developments.
Clotilde Bonfiglioli
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Federalism, Geography, and the Representation of Cities in the US Congress

Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT How elections impact the behavior of legislators is one of the most fundamental questions in the study of representation, yet little is known about the role of electoral geography. In a federal system like the United States, national resources often flow to cities.
Leah Rosenstiel
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Three applications of entropy to gerrymandering

, 2022
This preprint is an exploration in how a single mathematical idea - entropy - can be applied to redistricting in a number of ways. It's meant to be read not so much as a call to action for entropy, but as a case study illustrating one of the many ways math can inform our thinking on redistricting problems. This preprint was prepared as a chapter in the
Larry Guth, Ari Nieh, Thomas Weighill
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 609-635, July 2026.
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
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