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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Gerrymandering"”.
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The erosion of democracy: Gerrymandering in the United States
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Decolonizing American Democracy and the Problem of Gerrymandering: Implications of Border Designs from a Communication Ethics Perspective
… work in the culmination of analyzing political gerrymandering as a form of democratic competition grounded in the rhetoric of colonialism. Tracing the colonial history of borders throughout American democracy provides this project the ground to discuss the evolution of challenges that …
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Examining Partisan Advantage In Congressional Maps Using Simulations Based On Election Data
<p>Partisan gerrymandering has been and will continue to be a topic of interest in the coming years. States will soon begin their redistricting process following the 2020 Census. We introduce a method of simulating Congressional elections which provides a new way of examining and visualizing the …
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Applications of Compter Vision: Skyline Extraction and Congressional Districting = A gépi látás alkalmazásai: skyline-kiemelés és választókerület-szabdalás
… actors and often causes debates about gerrymandering. The highest possible circularity is a natural requirement for a fair legislative district. Thus, shape analysis can be a powerful tool to detect potential manipulation. First, we present an algorithm for skyline extraction and …
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Redistricting and the U.S. House of Representatives : illuminating electoral bias with the Brookes Method
… also informs electoral bias pertaining to racial gerrymandering. Using the Brookes Method to evaluate three states with a history of using extremes in race-based redistricting (Georgia, Louisiana, and North Carolina), my analysis reveals that these states have disaffected Democrats in …
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‘DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HIS RACE’: BLACK OFFICEHOLDERS AND THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF FREEDOM IN WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, 1865-1877
… not factional divisions, but voter suppression, gerrymandering, and constitutional revisions that made local government appointive rather than elective, Democrats at the state level chipped away at the political gains black Wilmingtonians had made.
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Resegregation and Educational Apartheid in Macon/Bibb County, Georgia: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
… through building "desegregation academies," gerrymandering public school districts, overcrowding and underfunding public schools (which are already at a disadvantage because of their socioeconomic status), the bureaucracy of Macon has unequivocally sent the message to the Black community that …
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High-performance evolutionary computation for scalable spatial optimization
… analyses of redistricting phenomena such as gerrymandering.
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THE BLUEPRINT OF REFORM, SOCIAL JUSTICE QUESTIONS, AND THE MISSING PERSPECTIVE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS
… districts, such as residential segregation, gerrymandering of school attendance boundaries, transfer policies, and assigning teachers in a segregated way (Orfield, 1978, 1996, 2013) have contributed to inequality in education of African American and other children of color. If institutions of …
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Party positions and the seats/votes relationship with ideological voters
… economic shocks, incumbency advantages, and gerrymandering. Chapter 3 is based on ideological voters. With purely ideological voters, party vote share depends on the distribution of voters in the entire country. Seat share depends on distribution of district medians. The seats/votes curve is …
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On naturalistic saltation genealogies of content: an exploration of continuity & discontinuity in nonreductive diachronic explanations of content by Adam H. Schroeder supervised by University of Cape Town
… normativity such as the disjunction problem and gerrymandering objection inter alia. As a prophylactic measure to deal with these difficulties, a strategy has recently come into vogue which forgoes attempts to provide purely reductive explanations of content; rather, it aims to explain how it is …
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The cost of elections and election administration: a comparison of Nigeria and South Africa
… economic realities (scarce resources), violence, gerrymandering, poor voter education, and the lingering impact of apartheid, etc. are some of the other factors influencing election administration in the country. The study concluded that whereas electoral costs are important for successful …
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Optimization approaches for political districting and graph partitioning
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms