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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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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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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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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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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Census data are foundational to democracy, research and equitable urban policy. In addition to supporting political reapportionment and redistricting, census data serve as the backbone of the federal statistical data system and are often considered the highest quality data—the ‘gold standard'—for scholarly and policy research.
Jason R. Jurjevich
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Belgeo, 2013 According to the decennial American Census, electoral districts are redrawn at each jurisdictional scale, through the principle of “one man, one vote”.
Emilie Bonnet
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Mathematics of Nested Districts: The Case of Alaska
Statistics and Public Policy, 2020 In eight states, a “nesting rule” requires that each state Senate district be exactly composed of two adjacent state House districts. In this article, we investigate the potential impacts of these nesting rules with a focus on Alaska, where Republicans ...
Sophia Caldera +4 more
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Subnational Border Reforms and Economic Activity in Africa
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.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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