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Implementing partisan symmetry: Problems and paradoxes
Daryl DeFord, Natasha Dhamankar, Moon Duchin +4
We consider the measures of partisan symmetry proposed for practical use in the political science literature, as clarified and developed in Katz, King, and Rosenblatt (2020). Eleme…
Locating the representational baseline: Republicans in Massachusetts
Moon Duchin, Taissa Gladkova, Eugene Henninger-Voss +3
Republican candidates often receive between 30 and 40 percent of the two-way vote share in statewide elections in Massachusetts. For the last three Census cycles, MA has held 9-10…
Gerrymandering metrics: How to measure? What's the baseline?
Moon Duchin
This note outlines three intellectually distinct but not mutually exclusive strategies for measuring partisan gerrymandering: partisan symmetry, efficiency gap, and algorithmic sam…
A formula goes to court: Partisan gerrymandering and the efficiency gap
Mira Bernstein, Moon Duchin
Recently, a proposal has been advanced to detect unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering with a simple formula called the efficiency gap. The efficiency gap is now working its way…