Professor Cass Sunstein once quipped that the nondelegation doctrine (which purports to
limit congressional delegations of legislative authority to agencies)" has had one good year …

Comparative studies of electoral institutions have largely neglected a fundamental
characteristic of most of the world's electoral systems: malapportionment. This article …

The Supreme Court's reapportionment decisions, beginning with Baker v. Carr in 1962, had
far more than jurisprudential consequences. They sparked a massive wave of extraordinary …

Green and Shapiro have argued that rational choice theory has produced virtually no new
propositions about politics that have been carefully tested and not found wanting; and that …

We clarify the theoretical foundations of partisan fairness standards for district-based
democratic electoral systems, including essential assumptions and definitions not previously …

Several countries have voted reforms in order to reduce the number of national
representatives and many others have debated about that possibility. There is, however, no …

In recent decades, the literature has coalesced around either symmetry or responsiveness
as measures of partisan bias in single‐member district systems. I argue neither accurately …

Studies of American politics, particularly legislative politics, rely heavily on measures of the
partisanship of a district. We develop a measurement model for this concept, estimating …

Engstrom evaluates redistricting plans and their electoral results from all states from 1789
through the 1960s, revealing that districting practices systematically affected the …

What is the effect of gerrymandering on the partisan outcomes of United States
Congressional elections? A major challenge to answering this question is in determining the …