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Gerrymandering and geographic polarization have reduced electoral competition
Ethan Jasny, Christopher T. Kenny, Cory McCartan +8
Changes in political geography and electoral district boundaries shape representation in the United States Congress. To disentangle the effects of geography and gerrymandering, we…
Redistricting Reforms Reduce Gerrymandering by Constraining Partisan Actors
Cory McCartan, Christopher T. Kenny, Tyler Simko +3
Political actors often manipulate redistricting plans to gain electoral advantages, a process known as gerrymandering. Several states have implemented institutional reforms to addr…
Evaluating Bias and Noise Induced by the U.S. Census Bureau's Privacy Protection Methods
Christopher T. Kenny, Cory McCartan, Shiro Kuriwaki +2
The United States Census Bureau faces a difficult trade-off between the accuracy of Census statistics and the protection of individual information. We conduct the first independent…
Comment: The Essential Role of Policy Evaluation for the 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System
Christopher T. Kenny, Shiro Kuriwaki, Cory McCartan +3
In "Differential Perspectives: Epistemic Disconnects Surrounding the US Census Bureau's Use of Differential Privacy," boyd and Sarathy argue that empirical evaluations of the Censu…
Widespread Partisan Gerrymandering Mostly Cancels Nationally, but Reduces Electoral Competition
Christopher T. Kenny, Cory McCartan, Tyler Simko +2
Congressional district lines in many U.S. states are drawn by partisan actors, raising concerns about gerrymandering. To separate the partisan effects of redistricting from the eff…
Simulated redistricting plans for the analysis and evaluation of redistricting in the United States
Cory McCartan, Christopher T. Kenny, Tyler Simko +5
This article introduces the 50stateSimulations, a collection of simulated congressional districting plans and underlying code developed by the Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Meth…
The Impact of the U.S. Census Disclosure Avoidance System on Redistricting and Voting Rights Analysis
Christopher T. Kenny, Shiro Kuriwaki, Cory McCartan +3
The US Census Bureau plans to protect the privacy of 2020 Census respondents through its Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS), which attempts to achieve differential privacy guarantee…
The Essential Role of Empirical Validation in Legislative Redistricting Simulation
Benjamin Fifield, Kosuke Imai, Jun Kawahara +1
As granular data about elections and voters become available, redistricting simulation methods are playing an increasingly important role when legislatures adopt redistricting plan…