As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led
to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done. But this arrangement depends …

While prisoners cannot vote, they are counted as residents of the often rural legislative
districts where they are incarcerated rather than their home districts. We examine the extent …

The apportionment process that precedes redistricting is generally a staid American political
ritual. Recent debates about who should be included in the apportionment basis, however …

Modern democratic political systems are hardly conceivable without political representation.
This also applies to the political system of the EU, and namely the European Parliament. The …

Following each US decennial census, congressional seats are reapportioned in pursuit of
numerically equal districts. These shifts in congressional district populations have …

Teresa Sullivan's (2020) article “Coming to Our Census” is an extremely important
presentation and discussion of, among other things, the role of the decennial census and its …

As set forth in Article I of the US Constitution, seats in the US House of Representatives will
be assigned to the states based on counts of the population obtained through the decennial …

Electoral systems are modified by individuals who have incentives to bias the rules for their
political advantage (ie, gerrymandering). To prevent gerrymandering, legislative institutions …

This research conducts a reassignment experiment on Texas, analyzing the effects of
reassigning incarcerated individuals to their home districts on county and congressional …

While prisoners cannot vote, they are counted as residents of the often rural legislative
districts where they are incarcerated rather than their home districts. We examine the extent …