Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"redistricting"”.
-
Mississippi Redistricting 1977-1980
<p>This is a study of the 1977-78 redistricting of the Mississippi State Legislature. It was a process that saw the culmination of a struggle between the civil rights forces and the "Establishment" in Mississippi, but its origins span almost the entire period of the "reapportionment revolution" in …
-
Optimization methods for political redistricting
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
-
Spatial Optimization Techniques for School Redistricting
… the school boundaries, also called school redistricting or school boundary formation, is done manually by the planners and involves hand-drawn maps. Given the rapid advancements in GIS made in the last decade and the availability of high-quality geospatial data, we opine that an objective …
-
Proposed Redistricting of Schools of Milam County, Texas
No abstract prepared.
-
Designing Human-Centered Collaborative Systems for School Redistricting
… This procedure, also known as school redistricting, invariably engenders a myriad of tensions within the associated communities. This dissertation addresses the potential and necessity to integrate geographically-enabled crowd-sourced input into the redistricting process, and …
-
Graph partitioning: redistricting games and the spherical zoning problem
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
-
Political contributions, voter turnout, and the effects of redistricting
… Individual contributors are also impacted by redistricting which is the redrawing of the geographic boundaries of U.S. Congressional Districts every 10 years after the completion of the U.S. Census. In both these cases, more competitive elections lead to more individual contributions, and the …
-
Distortion and Revolution in Texas U.S. Congressional Redistricting Politics: 1972-2014
Over 42 years and 22 US congressional elections between 1972 and 2014, Texas evolved from a state controlled by the Democratic Party since Reconstruction to one dominated by the Republican Party. This thesis examines the relationship between measures of district compactness and changing …
-
A Plan for Redistricting the School Districts of Antelope County, Nebraska
… both bad and good. In fact, the problem of redistricting has attracted so much attention that It may prove to be a major issue in the 1950 political campaign for the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction.|By now the factions have become easily distinguishable. One group …
-
Redistricting and the U.S. House of Representatives : illuminating electoral bias with the Brookes Method
… analyzes the effects of Congressional redistricting in the United States using the Brookes Method, developed by R.H. Brookes, a New Zealand political scientist. The Brookes Method disaggregates electoral bias into five separate components. My analysis shows that the party winning …
-
Political Consequences of Reapportionment on the Tenth Legislative District of Washington State
<p>The political consequences of redistricting the Tenth Legislative District. which comprises four geographically separated areas, is the subject of this thesis. This area was chosen because of its unique characteristics. Previous to redistricting these areas comprised not only three different …
-
District Elections, Redistricting and Recall: A Study of the Fifth District of the City of San Diego, 1988-1991
… campaign contributions, and (2) through redistricting, abandoning a community known for activism. The recall also broke up the progressive Council alliance and restored the previous status quo. Bernhardt was ambitious and outspoken; she became the focus for those dissatisfied with the …
-
California Congressional Reapportionment
<p>We now find ourselves at the end of the first redistricting following the so called "Reapportionment Revolution." There is, however, considerable disagreement defining its scope and the wisdom of its continuation. This paper reviews the effects of this revolution on this state. It outlines the …
-
Dynamic responsiveness in the American states : legislators, constituents, and organized interests
… redrew California's electoral map after the 2012 redistricting cycle, inducing large, exogenous shocks to the composition and policy preferences of many districts. The first paper of the dissertation assesses repositioning among members of the state legislature. Did they respond when redistricting …
-
High-performance evolutionary computation for scalable spatial optimization
… framework is employed to solve large political redistricting problems. Voting district-level redistricting problems are solved and sampled to create billions of feasible districting plans that adhere to Supreme Court mandates, suitable for statistical analyses of redistricting phenomena such as …
-
Changing Ideological Boots: Adaptive Legislator Behavior in Changing Districts
… to demographic changes that occur during redistricting, I use issue specific interest group scores from the ADA, NFU, and COPE. This exploits the bias in the selection of the issues that interest groups utilize to rate U.S. representatives, by using them to reflect changes in response to …
-
Applications of Compter Vision: Skyline Extraction and Congressional Districting = A gépi látás alkalmazásai: skyline-kiemelés és választókerület-szabdalás
… of orientation can be significantly increased. Redistricting has to be carried out to resolve geographic malapportionment caused by the different district population growth rates and migration. This process can be manipulated for an electoral advantage of a party, but achieving optimal partisan …
-
Strategic interactions in modern elections and markets
… four interconnected domains: manipulation of redistricting fairness through strategic campaigning (termed here as 'Votemandering'), computational complexity and optimal strategies in Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), large-scale empirical validation of RCV's mechanism design, and AI-driven strategic …
-
This ain't your daddy's dixie: explaining partisan change in southern U.S. House elections, 1988-2004
… identification among white southerners, (2) redistricting, and (3) the emergence of viable Republican candidates. In the extant literature, these factors are often analyzed separately, but these factors are complementary and each is necessary to account for partisan change in southern …
-
Examining Partisan Advantage In Congressional Maps Using Simulations Based On Election Data
… 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 votes-to-seats relationship for a state Congressional map using past election …
Page 1 of 2