Gerrymandering, Redistricting, and Public Opinion Aggregation

• In Event: New Methodological Approaches to Parties

Brief Overview

Using a proprietary dataset of individual-level public opinion paired with simulated districts, we find that public opinion has been warped in the past two redistricting cycles by gerrymandering and redistricting.

Authors

• Jesse Clark, Princeton University

• Richard Powell, University of Maine

• Matthew Dube, University of Maine at Augusta