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Optimality and fairness of partisan gerrymandering


California knows how to avoid partisan gerrymandering - SCOCAblog

All 50 states are subdivided into political districts, which are geographic areas that define the pools of voters who can select representatives ...

Measures of Partisan Bias for Legislating Fair Elections

This supports the inclusion of partisan fairness as a fundamental element for election law reform, and some options are discussed. 1. INTRODUCTION. It is well ...

Partisan Gerrymandering and Political Science - Annual Reviews

Recent years have seen a tremendous surge of public interest in partisan gerrymandering, including robust reform efforts and multiple high-profile court ...

Multiobjective Optimization for Politically Fair Districting: A Scalable ...

Political districting in the United States is a decennial process of redrawing the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts.

Using Automated Plan Generation to Evaluate Redistricting Proposals

Partisan gerrymandering has moved to the front burner of political reform once again. As the origin of the term “gerrymander” reminds us, ...

Gerrymandering Explained | Brennan Center for Justice

Gerrymandering is deeply undemocratic. Every 10 years, states redraw their legislative and congressional district lines following the census.

New research develops a model that optimizes political fairness for ...

Political redistricting is a problem of national interest with consequences to electoral representation. It is a decennial process of ...

Optimal partisan districting on planar geographies - OUCI

List of references · Bação F, Lobo V, Painho M (2005) Applying genetic algorithms to zone design. · Bozkaya B, Erkut E, Laporte G (2003) A tabu search heuristic ...

A Column Generation Heuristic for Fairness Optimized Political ...

Redistricting and Gerrymandering. Every 10 years in the United States, 428 congressional, 1938 state senate, and 4826 state house districts are.

Partisan Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap - ResearchGate

Several justices expressed interest in the concept of partisan symmetry-the idea that a plan should treat the major parties symmetrically in terms of the ...

Competitive Fair Redistricting - CMR

We consider the process of political redistricting after the decennial census. We call rules for redistricting fair if neither party can be ...

A column generation heuristic for fairness-optimized political districting

In the largest ever ensemble study of congressional districts, a scalable two-stage method to explicitly optimize for arbitrary piecewise-linear definitions ...

The Define–Combine Procedure - Maxwell Palmer

Redistricting reformers have proposed many solutions to the problem of partisan gerrymandering, but they all require either bipartisan consensus ...

147-Grofman-King- Future of Partisan Symmetry.pdf - UC Irvine

Browning, Democratic Representation and Partisan Bias in Congressional Elections, 81 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 1251 (1987); Andrew Gelman & Gary King, A Uni- fied ...

partisan gerrymandering as a safeguard of federalism

redistricting of congressional districts by each state). Congress has not used its power under the Elections Clause to stem the flow of partisanship into the ...

Evaluating Legislative Districts Using Measures of Partisan Bias and ...

A well-developed body of research offers ways to measure the partisan advantages that result from legislative districting.

A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering - Publications

Following the 2020 Census, every state in the United States redrew their Congressional and legislative district boundaries (for an overview see Warshaw, McGhee ...

State Evasion, Moore, and Partisan Gerrymandering

Common. Cause fundamentally altered the existing legal framework governing redistricting, signaling the retreat of federal courts from judicial ...

The Rise of the Hal-mander: Is Gerrymandering by Algorithm the ...

On its face, this process in North Carolina is what many reformers have called for. The legislature relied predominantly on a redistricting algorithm and ...

Managing Gerrymandering

13. See, e.g., Richard G. Niemi, The Swing Ratio as a Measure of Partisan Gerrymandering, in. POLITICAL GERRYMANDERING AND THE COURTS 171, 176 ...