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Autor:
Mert Moral, Robin E Best
Publikováno v:
Party Politics. 29:229-247
Do party policy offerings simply reflect public opinion or do parties shape public demand for policies? Theories of party position-taking and the operation of democracy expect parties to track their supporters’ positions, while scholarship of publi
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American Politics Research. 50:379-395
As attempts to combat partisan gerrymandering transition from proposals to the Supreme Court to state-based districting commissions, it is time to ask two questions. First, how well did commissions in the 2010 round of redistricting perform as neutra
Autor:
Robin E. Best
Publikováno v:
Electoral Studies. 82:102584
Publikováno v:
Social Science Quarterly. 101:37-52
Objective We show that Florida's post‐2010 congressional districts were an ex ante knowable gerrymander, which, if diagnosed as a factual matter before enactment, would have avoided both the 2012 and 2014 harm and the state's unnecessarily burdenso
Autor:
Robin E. Best
Publikováno v:
Representation. 56:367-386
The presence of right-wing populist parties in legislatures has the potential to change the calculus of government formation. I examine the effects of right-wing populist parties on four characteri...
Publikováno v:
American Politics Research. 47:1162-1201
In October 2017, the Supreme Court heard an appeal of a November 2016 ruling striking down Wisconsin’s State Assembly districts as a Republican gerrymander that illegally dilutes the weight of Democratic votes. We take the opportunity to revisit th
Publikováno v:
Legislative Studies Quarterly. 43:11-20
We endorse G. Bingham Powell's cautionary corrective to challenge Paul Warwick's conclusions that the median mandate thesis needs to be jettisoned because there is not a close match between median voter and government left‐right positions. More to
Autor:
Didem Seyis, Robin E. Best
Publikováno v:
Electoral Studies. 69:102201
The degree of ideological congruence between citizens and their elected representatives is an important feature of democratic systems of government. A long tradition of literature has examined the ideological linkages between citizens and governments
Chapter 5 analyzes the contentious issue of partisan gerrymandering—a process of designing the boundaries of electoral districts to favor either Republican or Democratic candidates. The chapter argues, and then shows, that coming to a standard of w
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190934163.003.0005
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190934163.003.0005
Autor:
Robin E. Best, Andrei Zhirnov
Publikováno v:
Electoral Studies. 40:256-267
Scholars commonly use a measure of the discrepancy between party vote shares and seat shares (observed disproportionality) as a proxy for the effects of electoral institutions. We illustrate the problems with doing so and, instead, recommend that sch