Political geography and representation: A case study of districting in Pennsylvania

Jonathan Rodden and Thomas Weighill
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Jonathan Rodden: Stanford University
Thomas Weighill: University of North Carolina at Greensboro

A chapter in Political Geometry, 2022, pp 101-127 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract So geography matters... but how? This chapter offers a detailed look, both qualitative and quantitative, at districting with respect to recent voting patterns in one state: Pennsylvania. Rodden and Weighill investigate how much the partisan playing field is tilted by political geography. In particular, they closely examine the role of scale. They find that partisan-neutral maps rarely give seats proportional to votes, and that making the district size smaller tends to make it even harder to find a proportional map.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69161-9_5

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