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Optimality and fairness of partisan gerrymandering


Optimality and fairness of partisan gerrymandering - SpringerLink

A problem of optimal partisan gerrymandering consists in designing district boundaries in order to get the best political advantage for one party.

Optimality and fairness of partisan gerrymandering - PubMed

We consider the problem of optimal partisan gerrymandering: a legislator in charge of redrawing the boundaries of equal-sized congressional ...

Optimality and fairness of partisan gerrymandering

AbstractWe consider the problem of optimal partisan gerrymandering: a legislator in charge of redrawing the boundaries of equal-sized ...

Optimality and fairness of partisan gerrymandering - Europe PMC

We consider the problem of optimal partisan gerrymandering: a legislator in charge of redrawing the boundaries of equal-sized congressional ...

Optimal partisan gerrymandering - UC Irvine

ABSTRACT. We look ae the problem of devising an optimal gerrymander from the standpoint of the political party in control of the redistricting process in a ...

Optimality and fairness of partisan gerrymandering - OUCI

Balinski, M.: Various approaches to the districting problem. Report prepared for the New Jersey Apportionment Commission (1969); Balinski, M.: Découpages ...

How Is Partisan Gerrymandering Unfair? - jstor

Republican-controlled state governments in the United States engaged in a nationally coordinated effort of unprecedented scale to gerrymander elec-.

THE ECONOMICS OF PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING Legislative ...

First, we show that if the designer has strong support from all voter types, then a negative assortative districting (NAD) plan is optimal, where extreme left ...

Partisan Gerrymandering and the Illusion of Unfairness

In the context of districting, fair representation can be infringed when the allocation of voters to districts means each citizen's vote does ...

Measuring Partisan Fairness - Alaska Court System

This report provides a quantitative analysis of the collaborative Proposed Draft maps for Michigan congressional districts, for Michigan Senate ...

Partisan Gerrymandering and the Political Process - DSpace@MIT

We first show that the partisan outcome of legislative elections has important causal effects on the ideological representation of individual districts, the ...

Scholarship on Partisan Gerrymandering | Brennan Center for Justice

In this article, Stephanopoulos and McGhee develop a new standard for measuring partisan gerrymandering called the efficiency gap.

Partisan Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap - Chicago Unbound

relative wasted votes. See Eric McGhee, Measuring Partisan Bias in Single-Member District Electoral Systems,. 39 LEGIS. STUD. Q. 55, 68 (2014) ...

Unfairness-of-Partisan-Gerrymandering-for-Berkeley.pdf

Republican-controlled state governments engaged in a coordinated effort of unprecedented scale to gerrymander election districts for state ...

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 ...

A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define ...

In this paper, we propose a new method for drawing district maps, the Define–Combine Procedure, that substantially reduces partisan gerrymandering.

Partisan Gerrymandering and Political Science - Annual Reviews

I review the history of political science and redistricting and describe how research on this topic has been shaped by the newfound in- terest.

Fixing Partisan Gerrymandering - Milken Institute Review

by abraham l. wickelgren. Olivier Douliery/Getty Images. abraham wickelgren teaches law and economics at the University of Texas Law School ...

Districting that minimizes partisan bias - Nature

The shapes of electoral districts determine how votes translate into seats. When districts favor certain political parties, ...

Gerrymandering - Wikipedia

In representative electoral systems, gerrymandering is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to advantage a party, group, ...