The Essential Role of Empirical Validation in Legislative Redistricting Simulation

• In Event: Political Methodology and American Politics

Brief Overview

We apply a recently developed method to generate large validation data sets of independently sampled alternative redistricting plans efficiently. This allows us to empirically validate the accuracy of redistricting simulation methods.

Authors

• Benjamin Haber Fifield, Harvard University

• Kosuke Imai, Harvard University

• Jun Kawahara, Kyoto University

• Christopher T. Kenny, Harvard University