[EL] Studies On Partisan Bias In Redistricting Commission Maps

[Nicholas Stephanopoulos]

I wrote this paper
<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2551556> a couple
years ago, when the Supreme Court was considering striking down the Arizona
redistricting commission. It summarizes the existing literature on
commissions' effects and carries out a new, more comprehensive analysis of
commissions' implications for partisan fairness.

Nick

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 1:33 AM, Steven John Mulroy (smulroy) <
smulroy at memphis.edu> wrote:

>
> Does anyone know of any good, relatively recent studies evaluating
> redistricting maps drawn by US state redistricting commissions, analysing
> the extent to which they are perfect matchups of votes to seats, or whether
> they have any partisan bias? I'm interested in not only how redistricting
> commissions generally compare to regular redistricting plans on this score,
> but also, how truly independent redistricting commissions compare with less
> independent commissions.  (I realize this distinction might be subjective,
> but I'm assuming the studies could evaluate redistricting commissions on
> the extent to which legislators are allowed to be a member, the extent to
> which they take an "equal number of Democrats and Republicans" approach
> versus using avowedly nonpartisan members, retired judges, etc., as
> members, that sort of thing.)
>
> Thanks in advance.
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