Partisan Gerrymandering and the Political Process: Effects on Roll-Call Voting and State Policies

Recent scholarship has documented the advantages of a new measure of partisan gerrymandering: The difference in the parties' wasted votes, divided by the total number of votes cast. This measure, known as the efficiency gap (EG), can be calculated directly from aggregate vote totals, facilitati...

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Main Authors: Caughey, Devin (Contributor), Tausanovitch, Chris (Author), Warshaw, Christopher (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2018-12-11T15:35:36Z.
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