Legislative Apportionment: Multimember Districts and Fair Representation

Diabetes prevalence rates among adults across California legislative districts.

n 2002, over one million California adults age 45 and older were diagnosed with diabetes —with negative consequences to the health of California adults. This chronic condition is the seventh leading cause of death in the state, the leading cause of kidney disease, blindness and lower limb amputations, and is widely recognized as a risk factor for other serious health conditions such as heart di...

Fair apportionment in the view of the Venice Commission's recommendation

In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting districts among larger administrative regions. This recommendation requires the size of any constituency not to differ from the average constituency size by more than a fixed limit. We show that this minimum difference constraint, while attractive per definition, is not compati...

Representation through Legislative Redistricting : A Stochastic Model

This paper builds a stochastic model of the processes that give rise to observed patterns of representation and bias in congressional and state legislative elections. The analysis demonstrates that partisan swing and incumbency voting, concepts from the congressional elections literature, have determinate effects on representation and bias, concepts from the redistrictihg literature. The model ...

Representation through Legislative Redistricting: A Stochastic Model

Legislative Representation in Flexible-List Electoral Systems

We develop a theory of legislative representation in open and flexible list proportional rule electoral systems (OFPR). Our framework highlights how representatives’ desire to cultivate a personal vote may undermine or strengthen the pursuit of collective party goals. We show that whether collective and individual goals are in conflict depends on the flexibility of the list—the extent to which ...