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Implementing Partisan Symmetry: Problems and Paradoxes

Daryl R. DeFord Natasha Dhamankar M. Duchin Varun Gupta Mackenzie McPike +2 lainnya
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Abstract We consider the measures of partisan symmetry proposed for practical use in the political science literature, as clarified and developed in Katz, King, and Rosenblatt (2020, American Political Science Review 114, 164–178). Elementary mathematical manipulation shows the symmetry metrics to have surprising properties that call their meaningfulness into question. To accompany the general analysis, we study measures of partisan symmetry with respect to recent voting patterns in Utah, Texas, and North Carolina, flagging problems in each case. Taken together, these observations should raise major concerns about the available techniques for quantitative scores of partisan symmetry—including the mean–median score, the partisan bias score, and the more general “partisan symmetry standard”—with the decennial redistricting underway.

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Political Science Physics

Penulis (7)

D

Daryl R. DeFord

N

Natasha Dhamankar

M

M. Duchin

V

Varun Gupta

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Mackenzie McPike

G

Gabe Schoenbach

K

Ki Wan Sim

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DeFord, D.R., Dhamankar, N., Duchin, M., Gupta, V., McPike, M., Schoenbach, G. et al. (2020). Implementing Partisan Symmetry: Problems and Paradoxes. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2021.49

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2020
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10.1017/pan.2021.49
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