Tom Brunell on 'Partisan gerrymandering in the US' 18 March 2014
Channel: Electoral Integrity Project
Date: 2014-03-31

Professor Tom Brunell from the University of Texas, Dallas, talks about pertisan gerrymandering in the United States and what can be done about it.

Download the paper at: http://bit.ly/1h9UnUH

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Partisan gerrymandering is a well-established practice in the United States. This paper compares the partisan use of population deviation for lower chambers of state legislatures across the United States in the 2000 and 2010 rounds of redistricting. In June 2004, the Supreme Court's 2004 decision on Cox v. Larios struck down the provision that state legislative districts need to be of roughly equal size, or the 'one, person, one vote' principle. The study predicts that the decision will have had an attenuating effect on population deviations overall, as well as a reduction in the blatant partisan use of population deviations. Data analyses indicate strong support for this argument. 


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