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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…
The (homological) persistence of gerrymandering
Moon Duchin, Tom Needham, Thomas Weighill
We apply persistent homology, the dominant tool from the field of topological data analysis, to study electoral redistricting. Our method combines the geographic information from a…
Mathematics of Nested Districts: The Case of Alaska
Sophia Caldera, Daryl DeFord, Moon Duchin +2
In eight states, a "nesting rule" requires that each state Senate district be exactly composed of two adjacent state House districts. In this paper we investigate the potential imp…