The following is a guest post from Sandy Gordon, Doug Spencer, and Sidak Yntiso discussing their newly published article “ What is the Harm in (Partisan) Gerrymandering? Collective vs. Dyadic Accounts of Representational Disparities ” in the Journal of Legal Analysis .
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As Texas, Missouri, and (likely) California plunge the country back into the latest round of redistricting wars, the overwhelming majority of coverage and commentary has focused on the collective consequences of re-gerrymandering: how will these maneuvers affect majority control of the House of Representatives come 2027, and how do they affect the relationship between the partisan makeup of the states in question and the partisan composition of their respective delegations to Congress?
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