Optimal gerrymandering: Sometimes pack, but never crack

American Economic Review

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 113-144

  Friedman, John N ^a   Holden, Richard T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 41849121927     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.98.1.113     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Ansolabehere, Stephen, James M. Snyder, and Charles Stewart III. 2000. "Old Voters, New Voters, and the Personal Vote: Using Redistricting to Measure the Incumbency Advantage." American Journal of Political Science, 44(1): 17-34.
2. Ansolabehere, Stephen, James M. Snyder, and Charles Stewart III. 2001. "Candidate Positioning in the U.S. House Elections." American Journal of Political Science, 45(1): 36-59.
3. Ashenfelter, Orley, and Stanley Kelly, Jr. 1975. "Determinants of Participation in Presidential Elections." Journal of Law and Economics, 18(3): 695-733.
4. Buchanan, James M., and Gordon Tullock. 1962. The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
5. Coate, Stephen, and Brian Knight. 2007. "Socially Optimal Districting: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(4): 1409-71.
6. Cox, Gary W., and Jonathan N. Katz. 2002. Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Apportionment Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
7. Downs, Anthony. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row.
8. Gelman, Andrew, and Gary King. 1990. "Estimating the Electoral Consequences of Legislative Redistricting." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 85(410): 274-82.
9. Gelman, Andrew, and Gary King. 1994. "Enhancing Legislative Redistricting Through Legislative Redistricting." American Political Science Review, 88(3): 541-59.
10. Gilligan, Thomas W., and John G. Matsusaka. 1999. "Structural Constraints on Partisan Bias under the Efficient Gerrymander." Public Choice, 100(1-2): 65-84.
11. Glaeser, Edward L., Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto, and Jesse M. Shapiro. 2005. "Strategic Extremism: Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(4): 1283-1330.
12. Hoeffding, Wassily. 1956. "On the Distribution of the Number of Successes in Independent Trials." Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 27(3): 713-21.
13. Issacharoff, Samuel, Pamela S. Karlan, and Richard H. Pildes. 2002. The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process. New York: Foundation Press.
14. Kan, Kamhon, and C. C. Yang. 2001. "On Expressive Voting: Evidence from the 1988 U.S. Presidential Election." Public Choice, 108(3-4): 295-312.
15. Karlin, Samuel, and Herman Rubin. 1956. "The Theory of Decision Procedures for Distributions with the Monotone Likelihood Ratio." Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 27(2): 272-99.
16. Lee, David S., Enrico Moretti, and Matthew J. Butler. 2004. "Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? Evidence from the U.S. House." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119(3): 807-59.
17. Matsusaka, John G., and Filip Palda. 1993. "The Downsian Voter Meets the Ecological Fallacy." Public Choice, 77(4): 855-918.
18. Milgrom, Paul R. 1981. "Good News and Bad News: Representation Theorems and Applications." Bell Journal of Economics, 12(2): 380-91.
19. Owen, Guillermo, and Bernard Grofman. 1988. "Optimal Partisan Gerrymandering." Political Geography Quarterly, 7(1): 5-22.
20. Poisson, Siméon-Denis. 1837. Recherches sur la probabilité des jugements en matière criminelle et en matière civile, précedées des regies géné rales du calcul des probabilités. Paris: Bachelier.
21. Rothstein, Paul. 1991. "Representative Voter Theorems." Public Choice, 72(2-3): 193-212.
22. Sherstyuk, Katerina. 1998. "How to Gerrymander: A Formal Analysis." Public Choice, 95(1-2): 27-49.
23. Shotts, Kenneth W. 2002. "Gerrymandering, Legislative Composition, and National Policy Outcomes." American Journal of Political Science, 46(2): 398-414.
24. Washington, Ebonya. 2006. "How Black Candidates Affect Turnout." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(3): 973-98.
25. Wolfinger, Raymond, and Steven Rosenstone. 1980. Who Votes? New Haven: Yale University Press.