Presentation
Context for Partisan Gerrymandering of U.S. House Districts: The 1970s through the 2010s, Yale Workshop on Redistricting
Yale Workshop on Redistricting
(2018)
Abstract
When can partisan gerrymandering take place? It is a necessary condition that a single party control all the elected branches of a government that have veto power. It’s not a sufficient condition, about which more below.
But it’s a necessary condition. Hence the possible utility of a metric clocking the incidence of that condition. In the drawing of U.S. House districts, how has such a metric played out since the 1960s?
Keywords
- Political Science,
- Congress,
- Elections,
- House,
- Redistricting,
- Gerrymandering,
- Incumbency,
- House Districts
Disciplines
Publication Date
November 2, 2018
Citation Information
David R Mayhew. "Context for Partisan Gerrymandering of U.S. House Districts: The 1970s through the 2010s, Yale Workshop on Redistricting" Yale Workshop on Redistricting (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david-mayhew/241/