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Priority Projects: Constituent Spending Demand and the Benefits of Congressional Credit Claiming
Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 4, November 2025.ABSTRACT How do incumbents in the US Congress turn federally funded district projects into electoral gains? Clarifying the connection between federal spending and congressional elections is critical for understanding the institution, as distributive benefits are theorized to enhance representation and facilitate broader policymaking.
Peter T. McLaughlin
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Why Don\u27t We Tax the Rich? Inequality, Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Income Taxation around the World [PDF]
, 2011 This paper argues that the details of political institutions help explain the low levels of personal income taxation. In particular, legislative malapportionment enables rich elites to exercise disproportionate political influence.
Inter-American Development Bank
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Inequalities in place‐based representation: Looking inside electoral districts
European Journal of Political Research, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 1165-1188, August 2025.Abstract Do representatives provide fair and proportional representation to each place in their district or, rather, do they favour some places, creating winners and losers of representation? While the impact of geography on representation has been extensively examined in majoritarian systems, we know little about the geographical losers of ...
MAFALDA PRATAS +2 more
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Closer to the people? Determinants of citizen–MP contact in Africa
Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 3, August 2025.Abstract In this paper, we investigate the determinants of contact between citizens and Members of Parliament (MPs) in Africa by combining theories of contact developed in advanced Western democracies with theories of clientelism developed in the Global South.
Leila Demarest, Wouter Veenendaal
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PARADOXES OF FEDERALISM?: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND FISICAL DECENTRALIZATION IN ARGENTINA AND SPAIN [PDF]
Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2010 This paper suggests a putative paradox of federalism, namely that formalfederal polities, which are normally based on strong bicameralism, can at timesbe less effective than more loose, yet decentralizing unitary systems in deepeningfiscal ...
Jorge P. Gordin
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District Populations and Partisan Bias
Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 3, August 2025.ABSTRACT We investigate whether the differing population sizes of legislative districts affect the ability to engage in partisan gerrymandering. We conjecture that larger populations facilitate partisan gerrymandering by providing mapmakers with more “raw material” to manipulate, and this might make such districts less compact.
Barry C. Burden, Veronica J. Judson
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Electoral Districts in Chile: Optimizing Socio-Economic Homogeneity and Demographic Balance
SystemsThis article addresses the problem of unequal representation in Chile, where the current districting does not effectively consider its socio-economic diversity.
Rodrigo Rebolledo +4 more
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Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page 186-215, June 2025.ABSTRACT Japan is an intriguing case in the literature of judicial independence because of the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) long‐lasting one‐party dominance in government—which, in theory, leads to low independence. Although scholars have found plentiful anecdotal observations implying the LDP's judicial control, quantitative evidence remains ...
Hirofumi Miwa
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MathematicsThis paper presents a mathematical programming model to simultaneously create districts and allocate seats in Chile’s Chamber of Deputies, improving representativeness. In addition, it explicitly incorporates constraints that ensure the contiguity of the
Rodrigo Rebolledo +4 more
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Griffith Law Review, 2009 This article revisits the zonal malapportionment and ‘Johrymander’ endemic in Queensland’s electoral system before the Fitzgerald Inquiry and examines how reform was won. Fitzgerald spent little time justifying his intuition that an unfair electoral system eroded accountability, and devolved to the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission (EARC ...
Orr, Graeme, Levy, Ron
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