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Mathematical Analysis of Redistricting in Utah
Statistics and Public Policy, 2022 We discuss difficulties of evaluating partisan gerrymandering in the congressional districts in Utah and the failure of many common metrics in Utah. We explain why the Republican vote share in the least-Republican district (LRVS) is a good indicator of ...
Annika King +4 more
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The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission: One State's Model for Gerrymandering Reform
, 2020 Independent redistricting in practice has proven remarkably successful along several dimensions. This policy brief outlines key lessons learned from redistricting in Arizona, a state with a five-person independent redistricting commission. Based on a mix
Schneer, Benjamin +2 more
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Quantifying Gerrymandering in North Carolina
Statistics and Public Policy, 2020 By comparing a specific redistricting plan to an ensemble of plans, we evaluate whether the plan translates individual votes to election outcomes in an unbiased fashion.
Gregory Herschlag +6 more
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Gerrymandering Hypothesis in the Italian Constituencies
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2019 Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries. The term gerrymandering has negative connotations. Two principal tactics are used in gerrymandering: “cracking” (
Fabio Ratto Trabucco
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Modélisation de répartition d’élèves et délimitation de secteurs scolaires en milieu urbain
Belgeo, 2017 In the midst of a school reform context and following its continuous population growth, the city of Lausanne had to re-examine various aspects of the management of its public schools.
Théophile Emmanouilidis
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Social SciencesThis 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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Gerrymandering or geography? How Democrats won the popular vote but lost the Congress in 2012
Research & Politics, 2014 This article assesses whether the antimajoritarian outcome in the 2012 US congressional elections was due more to deliberate partisan gerrymandering or asymmetric geographic distribution of partisans.
Nicholas Goedert
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Wyznaczanie okręgów wyborczych we francuskiej tradycji ustrojowej
Politeja, 2020 Designing Constituencies in the French Political Tradition The article analyzes the French redistricting process (redécoupage) since 1789, tracing both the evolution of relevant legal norms through the transformations in the political regime and the ...
Dariusz Stolicki
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Creating Colorado’s 8th congressional district
Journal of MapsThis paper looks at the creation of Colorado’s newest congressional district (CD 8) to explore the recycling of political power that occurs in redistricting despite struggles to challenge the status quo.
Gabriella Subia
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Theoretical Computer Science, 2019 Gerrymandering is a long-standing issue within the U.S. political system, and it has received scrutiny recently by the U.S. Supreme Court. In this note, we prove that deciding whether there exists a fair redistricting among legal maps is NP-hard. To make this precise, we use simplified notions of "legal" and "fair" that account for desirable traits ...
Richard Kueng +2 more
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