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Common Forms of Gerrymandering in the United States

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2019
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dc.abstract.plGerrymandering is a form of voting manipulation whereby electoral district boundaries are drawn to produce a partisan or political bias in elections. In this paper, we study partisan gerrymandering in the United States to understand its undemocratic outcomes and how the design of election institutions can promote or prevent gerrymandering. We begin with a survey of the history of gerrymandering, with a particular focus on partisan gerrymandering. We then consider the normative standards of fairness in democracy that partisan gerrymandering may violate. Next, we present a typology of partisan gerrymandering based upon the district maps drawn in California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New Jersey for the 2012 elections. Using the partisan symmetry method, we estimate the seats/votes curves of the congressional maps used in 38 states during the 2012 elections. We find that partisan gerrymanders occur almost exclusively when politicians are given control over redistricting. This analysis implies that a political designer, who wants to minimize gerrymandering, should not put redistricting in the hands of politicians.
dc.contributor.affiliationVirginia Commonwealth University
dc.contributor.affiliationThe Union of Concerned Scientists and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Strathclyde, Glasgow
dc.contributor.affiliationDepartment of Economics, University of California-Irvine
dc.contributor.authorAlex Keena
dc.contributor.authorMichael Latner
dc.contributor.authorAnthony J. McGann
dc.contributor.authorCharles Anthony Smith
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-28T14:24:51Z
dc.date.available2025-07-28T14:24:51Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.issue32
dc.identifier.doi10.7206/DEC.1733-0092.130
dc.identifier.issn1733-0092
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/handle/item/3626
dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofCollective and Individual Decisions
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0
dc.subjectgerrymanderyzm
dc.subjectmanipulacja wyborcza
dc.subjectKongres Stanów Zjednoczonych
dc.subjectpartie polityczne
dc.subtypeOriginal
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Common Forms of Gerrymandering in the United States

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