Recent years have seen a tremendous surge of public interest in partisan gerrymandering,
including robust reform efforts and multiple high-profile court cases. Political scientists have …

We clarify the theoretical foundations of partisan fairness standards for district-based
democratic electoral systems, including essential assumptions and definitions not previously …

Scholars of American politics have long been skeptical of ordinary citizens' capacity to
influence, let alone control, their governments. Drawing on over eight decades of state-level …

Over the last few years, there has been an unprecedented outpouring of scholarship on
partisan gerrymandering. Much of this work has sought either to introduce new measures of …

The relationship between votes and seats in the legislature lies at the heart of democratic
governance. However, there has been little previous work on the downstream effects of …

The recent wave of attention to partisan gerrymandering has come with a push to refine or
replace the laws that govern political redistricting around the country. A common element in …

State legislatures are tasked with drawing state and federal districts and administering
election law, among many other responsibilities. Yet state legislatures are themselves …

We introduce a fine-grained measure of the extent to which electoral districts combine and
split local communities of co-partisans in unnatural ways. Our indicator—which we term …

Congressional redistricting plans for Pennsylvania, with an emphasis on the newly enacted
2018 plan, have been evaluated for fairness and responsiveness to voters. This and other …

Abstract In League of Women Voters v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (2018) the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down as a “severe and durable” partisan gerrymander …