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Partisan Gerrymandering and the Political Process: Effects on Roll-Call Voting and State Policies

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
dc.contributor Caughey, Devin
dc.creator Caughey, Devin
dc.creator Tausanovitch, Chris
dc.creator Warshaw, Christopher
dc.date 2018-12-11T15:35:36Z
dc.date 2018-12-11T15:35:36Z
dc.date 2017-12
dc.date 2018-12-03T17:44:03Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:10:11Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:10:11Z
dc.identifier 1533-1296
dc.identifier 1557-8062
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119500
dc.identifier Caughey, Devin, Chris Tausanovitch, and Christopher Warshaw. “Partisan Gerrymandering and the Political Process: Effects on Roll-Call Voting and State Policies.” Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy 16, no. 4 (December 2017): 453–469. © 2017 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6769-1438
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/279011
dc.description Recent scholarship has documented the advantages of a new measure of partisan gerrymandering: The difference in the parties' wasted votes, divided by the total number of votes cast. This measure, known as the efficiency gap (EG), can be calculated directly from aggregate vote totals, facilitating comparison of the severity of party gerrymandering across states and time. In this article, we conduct the first analysis of the EG's effects on legislative representation and policymaking in the states. We first show that the partisan outcome of legislative elections has important causal effects on the ideological representation of individual districts, the ideological composition of legislative chambers, and the conservatism of state policymaking. We then show that variation in the EG across state-years is associated with systematic differences in the ideological location of the median state legislator and in the conservatism of state policies. These results suggest that partisan gerrymandering has major consequences not only for who wins elections but for the political process as a whole. Keywords: redistricting, gerrymandering, state politics, representation, legislatures
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dc.publisher Mary Ann Liebert Inc
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ELJ.2017.0452
dc.relation Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy
dc.rights Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.
dc.source Mary Ann Liebert
dc.title Partisan Gerrymandering and the Political Process: Effects on Roll-Call Voting and State Policies
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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