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Past research efforts in congressional redistricting have focused on party bias plans without ever directly measuring the attitudes of state legislators. In this study we specifically measure goals that legislators would like to achieve as they formulate a plan. Overall, possess loyalty necessary produce partisan plans, but number conflicting demands placed upon them inhibit full realization ob...

• Homophily differs for republicans and democrats in the US House. men women is stronger among than democrats, men, or women. Effective lawmaking requires collaboration legislators, who form coalitions to advance their legislative agendas. In this paper, we explore how legislators’ party gender identities simultaneously influence whom they choose as collaborators by examining differential homop...