Partisan and bipartisan gerrymandering

Hideo Konishi and Chen-Yu Pan

Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2020, vol. 22, issue 5, 1183-1212

Abstract: This paper analyzes the optimal partisan and bipartisan gerrymandering policies in a model with electoral competitions in policy positions and transfer promises. Party leaders have both office‐ and policy‐motivations. With complete freedom in redistricting, partisan gerrymandering policy generates the most one‐sidedly biased district profile, while bipartisan gerrymandering generates the most polarized district profile. In contrast, with limited freedom in gerrymandering, both partisan and bipartisan gerrymandering tend to prescribe the same policy.

Date: 2020
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