Gerrymandering in Russian urban centers complements electoral fraud in the countryside

• In Event: Campaigns and Elections in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

We use a novel set of high-resolution GIS maps of the boundaries of Russian SMDs, and new multimodality tests for fraud detection, to show that the strategic drawing of districts in Russian urban centers complements electoral fraud in the countryside

Authors

• Fabricio Vasselai, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Walter R Mebane, University of Michigan