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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Electoral Bias"”.
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Redistricting and the U.S. House of Representatives : illuminating electoral bias with the Brookes Method
… scientist. The Brookes Method disaggregates electoral bias into five separate components. My analysis shows that the party winning control of the House benefits from the most prevalent component of bias but that Democrats persistently benefit from the next most prevalent component. This means …
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Developing methods for understanding the nature of voting patterns and party competition in Britain
… of determining a new method for decomposing electoral bias for three-party competition under simple plurality rules of voting. The study of electoral bias is important for voting systems that requires periodic boundary reviews intended to equalise electorate and to remove malapportionment. …
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Distortion and Revolution in Texas U.S. Congressional Redistricting Politics: 1972-2014
… increasing Hispanic percentage) on a measure of electoral bias, as measured by a metric called distortion during this transition. Distortion is the difference between the percentage of seats won by a party with the percentage of votes it received in a statewide congressional election. Using a …
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Migration, Polarization, and Sorting in the American Electorate
… and suggest this results from an increase in electoral bias that could result from heavy migration into districts that begin the decade as very homogenous.</p>
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Individual Differences In Pyschological Evaluations Of Electoral Risk: Furthering The Explanation Of The Gender Gap In Candidate Emergence
… underrepresented in the political realm. Electoral bias against women cannot be blamed; when women run, women win. However, women don't seek political office in high numbers. This project builds on previous examinations of the gender gap in political ambition by proposing that a …