partisan gerrymandering
A discernable and manageable standard for partisan gerrymandering
... of partisan symmetry. As we will see in the next section, the partisan asymmetry of the current Pennsylvania districting plan is not 10%, but ...egregious partisan gerrymandering because there ...
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Quantifying the Impact of Partisan Gerrymandering: Uncompetitive, Unresponsive, and Unaccountable American Democracy
... There are a few states that are more likely than others to see partisan mid-decade redistricting plans emerge before the end of the decade. The most likely states are those in which one party controls both ...
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Partisan Gerrymandering: A New Concept for Florida's 1992 Reapportionment
... reapportionment plan-that partisan gerrymandering may be found to violate the equal protection clause of the federal Constitution.' In past reapportionment years, the m[r] ...
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“A Cloud of Constitutional Illegitimacy”: Prospectivity and the De Facto Doctrine in the Gerrymandering Context
... 34. For example, anger over the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s partisan gerrymandering decision quickly spilled into the legislative agenda. Immediately following the judgment, members of the state ...
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What, If Anything, Is Wrong with Gerrymandering?
... case: partisan gerrymandering? Consider an ...a partisan of the Fête Party, holds the election on the first, informing only members of his own ...
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No Matter Who Draws the Lines: A Comparative Analysis of the Utility of Independent Redistricting Commissions in First-Past-the-Post Democracies
... But proportional to what? In what ways is it important for the legislature to be an “exact portrait” in miniature of the electorate? It could be argued that many demographic qualities are politically important enough ...
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Gerrymandering (Almost) Gone Wild: How the Supreme Court Saved Independent Redistricting Reform
... In whole, Arizona State Legislature kept the Pandora’s Box of partisan gerrymandering closed in Arizona, and likely nationwide. The majority’s legal discussion and reliance on historical record demonstrates ...
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What is special about the human body?
... Parliamentary and media discourse was replete with similar assertions of what Brown calls ‘ontological gerrymandering’,42 since these ‘metric calculation[s] of humanness’ inevitably laps[r] ...
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Public health expenditure in Spain: is there partisan behaviour?
... The results that we have obtained are reported in Tables 2 and 3. Table 2 shows that the convergence null hypothesis is rejected for the total public health expenditure as well as for most of its functional components. ...
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resistance
... In Warsaw, in December 1942, members of the Polish resistance formed an under- ground organization called Zegota, the Council for Aid to Jews. Zegota provided refuge, funds, forged papers, and other means of social ...
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Tu envidia es mi progreso: An Ethnographic Account of the Development of Squatter Settlements in San Juan de Miraflores, Lima, Peru.
... Source: Caretas, February 21,2000:13 This political cartoon depicts a cynical conversation between two old men discussing Fujimori’s suspected gerrymandering and the possibility of Fuji[r] ...
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Partisan Campaigning and Initiative Petition Signing in Direct Democracies
... 8 For robustness I rerun regressions using the federal recommendation. Qualitatively, results do not change because cantonal and federal recommendations are aligned in more than 80% o[r] ...
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‘Gott mit uns’: Reflections on some partisan theologies
... The most potent example of a partisan theology based on the dictum Gott mit uns emerged in the 1930s in Germany. Many theologians in Germany attempted to synchronise the basic idea of National Socialism with ...
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Cross-national partisan effects on agenda stability
... a partisan impact, instead showing that policy attention reacts more to world ...the partisan composition of government matters for the distribution of policies across issues has yet to be completed in a ...
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Unauthorized Immigration, Fiscal Conservatism, and Partisan Support for the Republicans
... Beyond the political rhetoric, however, there is little empirical evidence connecting the pres- ence of unauthorized immigrants to changes in support for one party over the other. To our knowl- edge, this paper provides ...
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Race IPSA: Vote Dilution, Racial Gerrymandering, and the Presumption of Racial Discrimination
... A three-judge panel of the district court rejected the appel- lant's contention that § 2 of the Voting Rights Act required the creation of majority-minority districts [r] ...
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Reputations, commitment problems, and partisan third party interventions
... on the adversaries’ incentive to remobilize and rearm, Werner (1999) concentrates on the incentive to renegotiate the terms of a prior agreement due to anticipated changes in the distribution of capabilities and expected ...
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AP Gov Chp 12 rd PP (1) [Autosaved].pptx
... Partisan leader, power leverager Don’t lead us where we don’t want.. to go.[r] ...
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An Empirical Exploration of Moral Foundations Theory in Partisan News Sources
... a partisan news source to one of three sides in the US: conservative, liberal and ...and partisan side, we identified the top 1,000 unique words, stopwords excluded, and mapped these to their respective ...
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The Court Confronts the Gerrymander
... '4 1 Justice Powell, who could not have been more eager to address the political gerrymandering issue, stated, "I therefore am prepared to entertain constitution[r] ...
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