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Steve Bickerstaff
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Steve Bickerstaff: The University of Texas at Austin

Chapter Chapter 1 in Election Systems and Gerrymandering Worldwide, 2020, pp 1-8 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The origin of this book lies in my belief that there is a dearth of readable works relating, comparing, and analyzing the use and gerrymandering of electoral districts in different election systems worldwide. Moreover, I resent the attitudes I found among many political scientists that gerrymandering to advantage or disadvantage certain candidates or political parties is a problem unique to the United States, and that systems with proportional representation largely escape this problem. As this book demonstrates the drawing of election districts or allocation of seats to states, provinces, administrative units, or multi-member districts, or the failure to do so, for the benefit of specific political officials or interests in the national legislature is common throughout the world and is a form of gerrymandering.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30837-7_1

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