Causes and Consequences of Post-2012 State Legislative Gerrymandering

• In Event: Gerrymandered Districts and Partisan Bias

Brief Overview

Analysis of state legislative gerrymandering, estimations of partisan and racial bias as a function of geographic clustering and district compactness. Analysis of the impact of gerrymandering on the enactment of restrictive election laws.

Authors

• Michael Latner, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

• Alex Keena, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Charles A. Smith, University of California-Irvine

• Anthony James McGann, University of Strathclyde