تقرير
Mathematics of Nested Districts: The Case of Alaska
| العنوان: | Mathematics of Nested Districts: The Case of Alaska |
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| المؤلفون: | Caldera, Sophia, DeFord, Daryl, Duchin, Moon, Gutekunst, Samuel C., Nix, Cara |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | Computer Science Mathematics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Computer Science - Social and Information Networks, Computer Science - Computers and Society, Mathematics - Combinatorics, 05C90, 05C70, 05C85 |
| الوصف: | In eight states, a "nesting rule" requires that each state Senate district be exactly composed of two adjacent state House districts. In this paper we investigate the potential impacts of these nesting rules with a focus on Alaska, where Republicans have a 2/3 majority in the Senate while a Democratic-led coalition controls the House. Treating the current House plan as fixed and considering all possible pairings, we find that the choice of pairings alone can create a swing of 4-5 seats out of 20 against recent voting patterns, which is similar to the range observed when using a Markov chain procedure to generate plans without the nesting constraint. The analysis enables other insights into Alaska districting, including the partisan latitude available to districters with and without strong rules about nesting and contiguity. Comment: 39 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12732 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2005.12732 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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