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Geography of Electoral Districting or Gerrymandering and Malapportionment, Romanian‑style

Sfera Politicii, 2015
In 2008, Romania instituted an electoral system that uses proportional methods for distributing seats to political parties and uninominal constituencies for assigning parliamentary seats to candidates.
Aurelian Giugăl
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Redistricting and Black Political Mobilization: Implications from the 2018 and 2022 Midterm Elections

Social Sciences
This research is an analysis of redistricting between the 2018 and 2022 midterm elections and its consequences regarding Black political mobilization and participation.
Linda M. Trautman, Michael A. Smith
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The case of the disappearing bias: A 2014 update to the “Gerrymandering or Geography” debate

Research & Politics, 2015
This note observes that the pro-Republican bias in the relationship between seats and votes that characterized the 2012 US congressional elections largely disappeared in the 2014 elections, where Republicans won a six-point victory in the national ...
Nicholas Goedert
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Long-term urban microgrid design: Socio-spatial resilience to promote energy democracy

TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis
This research article argues that long-term considerations for sociotechnical resilience in urban microgrid design should include socio-spatial dimensions and energy democracy as key concepts. Referring to Otto Neurath and ‘Red Vienna’ of the 1920s this
Sadeeb Simon Ottenburger, Ulrich Ufer
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Widespread partisan gerrymandering mostly cancels nationally, but reduces electoral competition. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023
Kenny CT, McCartan C, Simko T, Kuriwaki S, Imai K.   +4 more
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Desmembramento de municípios: impactos sobre as eleições legislativas municipais

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
RESUMO O artigo avalia os efeitos da divisão de municípios sobre as eleições na composição nas câmaras legislativas municipais, onde buscamos identificar a hipótese de “gerrymandering”, ou seja, alteração da composição do poder nesses municípios ...
ENLINSON MATTOS, LUCAS GARCEZ
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Back by popular demand, ontology: Productive tensions between anthropological and philosophical approaches to ontology. [PDF]

Synthese, 2023
Turska JJ, Ludwig D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Gerrymandering educational opportunity

, 2017
Gerrymandering is known best as a tool to manipulate boundaries for voting districts, but school districts have long used the same tool to manipulate school boundaries.
Meredith P. Richards
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Undefeated - Gerrymandering / Jim Crow Exhibit Panel [PDF]

, 2020
Undefeated - Gerrymandering / Jim Crow poster Definitions of redistricting, malapportionment and gerrymandering as means of voter ...
Brown, Sally
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The Case for Federal Anti-Gerrymandering Legislation [PDF]

, 2005
Partisan gerrymandering is a political tradition the United States can no longer afford. Due in part to the effects of partisan gerrymandering, very few congressional elections are meaningfully competitive.
O\u27Neill, Brian
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