Titlebook: Redistricting: A Manual for Analysts, Practitioners, and Citizens; Peter A. Morrison,Thomas M. Bryan Book 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland

Acumen

Accounting for Prisoner Populations drawing a majority minority election district under hypothetically different rules for counting (or excluding) prisoners as “residents” and as “eligible voters.” Criminal disenfranchisement laws, which strip voting rights from people with past criminal convictions, are in flux (at this writing, law

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Demographic Accounting Modelsical participation across groups where differing age structures obscure a true comparison; the other, to foresee the effects over time of juvenile cohorts maturing into adult voters, strengthening that group’s political participation over time.

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Characterizing Minority Voting Strength in Spatially Diverse Contextsmographic composition of a community’s racial and ethnic minority residents may impose practical limitations on drawing districts. Each case study exemplifies how those limitations can impinge upon the possibility of meeting the first “Gingles” precondition (geographic compactness).

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Comparing Alternative Plan Optionsr agreement upon an acceptable approach, narrowing the focus thereafter to variants that implement that approach. Doing so at strategic points can expedite convergence upon a few specific variants of that agreed-upon approach.

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Integrating Administrative, Political, and Census Geographyl census geographies must be aligned; where Census PUMS data are used to approximate specific populations; etc. These case studies present concrete illustrations of such issues and practical ways to resolve them, which can adapted to particular situations at hand.