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CENSUS UNDERCOUNTS, DIGITAL DISPLACEMENT, AND DATA JUSTICE: What Social Scientists and Data Users Need to Know About the 2020 US Census

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 1347-1365, September 2026.
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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Federalism, Geography, and the Representation of Cities in the US Congress

Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT How elections impact the behavior of legislators is one of the most fundamental questions in the study of representation, yet little is known about the role of electoral geography. In a federal system like the United States, national resources often flow to cities.
Leah Rosenstiel
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Redistricting. [PDF]

, 2005
REDISTRICTING. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends process for redistricting California’s Senate, Assembly, Congressional and Board of Equalization districts.

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BARD: Better Automated Redistricting

Journal of Statistical Software, 2011
BARD is the first (and at time of writing, only) open source software package for general redistricting and redistricting analysis. BARD provides methods to create, display, compare, edit, automatically refine, evaluate, and profile political districting
Micah Altman, Michael P. McDonald
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TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 1003-1019, July 2026.
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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Basics about redistricting [PDF]

, 1999
This archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Title from PDF caption (viewed on December 4, 2014)"April ...

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Direct democracy and political extremism

Economica, Volume 93, Issue 371, Page 1095-1121, July 2026.
Abstract We study how citizens' right to directly decide on policies through popular initiatives affects the attractiveness of extreme candidates in representative elections. In our theoretical framework, single prominent policy issues on which individual voters hold extreme views get a large weight in their assessment of candidates, thereby favouring ...
Nicolas Schreiner, Alois Stutzer
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Community Members Draw the Line

SAGE Open, 2014
This study investigates whether a community-based task force’s redistricting plan in Ventura County, California, positively affected fair representation, social equity issues, community interests, and the electoral process.
Gregory Freeland
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The Devil’s in the Details: Evaluating the One Person, One Vote Principle in American Politics

Politics and Governance, 2014
Ever since the Supreme Court instituted the one person, one vote principle in congressional elections based on its decision in Wesberry v. Sanders (1964), intrastate deviations from equal district populations have become smaller and smaller after each ...
Jeffrey W. Ladewig, Seth C. McKee
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The Political Economy of Attention: Media Salience, Voter Cognition, and Electoral Accountability

Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 1173-1193, July 2026.
ABSTRACT We review conceptual and empirical contributions to the political economy of attention, with a focus on how attention allocation shapes political behavior and electoral accountability. The review distinguishes between endogenous (goal‐directed) and exogenous (stimulus‐driven) attention and examines how these concepts are incorporated into ...
Patrick Balles, Ulrich Matter, Alois Stutzer   +2 more
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