Partisan gerrymandering with geographically compact districts
Partisan gerrymandering with geographically compact districts
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地理位置紧凑的选区存在党派不公正划分
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发表时间：
2017
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1
通讯作者：
D. Mixon
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作者：
B. Alexeev;D. Mixon
形状怪异的选区经常被抨击为可能的不公正划分选区的例子。为了系统地识别这种情况，研究人员设计了几种所谓的地理紧凑性（即形状美观）测试。我们证明，在某些条件下，一个政党可以gerrymander一个竞争激烈的国家到地理上紧凑的地区，赢得平均超过70%的地区。我们的研究结果表明，几何特征本身可能无法充分打击党派gerrymandering。
Abstract Bizarrely shaped voting districts are frequently lambasted as likely instances of gerrymandering. In order to systematically identify such instances, researchers have devised several tests for so-called geographic compactness (i.e. shape niceness). We demonstrate that under certain conditions, a party can gerrymander a competitive state into geographically compact districts to win an average of over 70% of the districts. Our results suggest that geometric features alone may fail to adequately combat partisan gerrymandering.