gerrymandering

Extreme gerrymandering and the purpose of elections

By Dan Nexon

In democracy

On June 4, 2023

There's an interesting article on the math of extreme gerrymandering — and of detecting it — at a magazine, Qanta, that I've never head of before. The quotation that I've seen circulating concerns, first, how simulations can now produce compact districts that are still heavily...

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A Semi-Fair Congressional Map In Spite Of Ourselves

By Erik Loomis

On March 10, 2022

Thanks to some state courts taking some responsibility for stopping Republicans just fixing elections (not that this is going to survive the Supreme Court much longer based on the high.

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Could Democracy Return to North Carolina?

By Erik Loomis

On September 3, 2019

North Carolina has not had a functioning democratic system since the Republican takeover in 2011. Its extreme gerrymandering is just one of the consequences but it's probably the most important.

Gerrymandering

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 11, 2017

Color me skeptical that the Supreme Court is ever going to do the right thing, but this is interesting: So far there has been no word on the outcome from the court, which issues decisions in its hardest cases as late as the end of...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 105

By Erik Loomis

On July 16, 2017

This is the grave of Elbridge Gerry. Born in 1744 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Gerry grew up in a Massachusetts elite merchant family. He gradated from Harvard in 1762 and received.

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How Screwed Are Democrats in the House?

By Erik Loomis

On February 4, 2016

Get used to this guy Really, really screwed. The Cook Political Report came out with ratings Wednesday for how House elections are shaping up. The simple math: Just 33 seats.

Majority-Minority Districts

By Dave Brockington

In Dave Brockington , General

On March 26, 2011

This is an area that I used to know a lot about earlier in my academic existence, but has nothing to do with the paper I'm trying to finish today opposed by my daughter's best efforts (the effect of EU Framework I grants on turnout...