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A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status
ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible implications for national representation and for the principle of vote equality, of the 2018 constitutional National Assembly reform project.
Cyrille Genre-Grandpierre +2 more
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This essay is intended to be an analytical reflection on the two essays with which Kitsuse and Spector introduced and outlined their proposal for a sociology of social problems.
Luca Recchi
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Resolving gerrymandering ::a manageable standard /
"This book proposes a manageable standard for resolving gerrymandering without the entanglements of justiciability and political questions. The standard focuses on the mechanism by which gerrymandering operates, not on the outcome. The precedent for this
Schafer, Robert,
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Measuring Political Gerrymandering [PDF]
In 2016, a Wisconsin court struck down the state assembly map due to unconstitutional gerrymandering. If this ruling is upheld by the Supreme Court's pending 2018 decision, it will be the fist successful political gerrymandering case in the history of the United States.
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Gerrymandering and American Politics
What is political gerrymandering and why has it become such a powerful and frequently used weapon in Republican and Democratic efforts to control Congress? Why do critics decry gerrymandering as antithetical to American democracy?
Kara E. Stooksbury
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Gerrymandering in comparative perspective
Using data from the Electoral Integrity Project, we measure the level of gerrymandering according to country expert surveys in Lower House elections in 54 democracies from the second half of 2012 until the first half of 2015.
Martinez i Coma, Ferran, Lago, Ignacio
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Gerrymandering under Uncertain Preferences (Student Abstract)
Gerrymandering is the manipulating of redistricting for political gain. While many attempts to formalize and model gerrymandering have been made, the assumption of known voter preference, or perfect information, limits the applicability of these works to
Kelly, Benjamin
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<div> <i>Partisan</i> gerrymandering is a familiar practice. But <i>intra-partisan</i> gerrymandering—one faction within a party designing districts to handicap another faction within the same party—has barely been noticed ...
Aaron Russell Kaufman +2 more
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Gerrymandering Justiciability [PDF]
As illustrated by its 2019 decision in Rucho v. Common Cause, the Supreme Court has gerrymandered its justiciability doctrines in a way that protects the political power of white voters.
Spann, Girardeau A
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