Excerpts from First Declaration of Bernard Grofman in Badham v. Eu
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6100197 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Grofman (0000-0002-2801-3351, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 03 |
| Pages | 544-550 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1049096500022162 |
| OpenAlex | W2047073350 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
1. I am a professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine.... I am thoroughly familiar with the congressional districts delineated in Assembly Bill 2X as implemented with the so-called March 17, Technical Changes. The congressional districts of A.B. 2X (Plan II, passed in 1983) as implemented constitute an egregious form of partisan gerrymandering.Methods of GerrymanderingGerrymandering is a technique which operates to minimize or cancel out the voting strength of racial or political elements of the voting population by one or more of the following twelve methods:(1) Packing the voting strength of a group to insure that much of its voting strength is wasted in districts which are won by lop-sided margins—in particular, packing its strength to a greater extent than is true for the voting strength of the group controlling the district.(2) Fragmenting or submerging the voting strength of a group to create districts in which that group will constitute a permanent (or near certain) minority.(3) Reducing the re-election likelihood of some of a group's representatives by altering district boundaries to put two or more representatives from the group into the same district.(4) Reducing the re-election likelihood of some of a group's representatives by altering district boundaries to cut-up old districts so as to make it impossible for these representatives to continue to represent the bulk of their former constituents
Democracy · Gerrymandering · House of Representatives · Law and economics · Physics · Political science · Politics · Population · Redistricting · Sociology · Voting · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Demography · Law · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |