is there any empirical analysis of whether gerrymandering seems intended to benefit party as a whole vs its most powerful members?
hmm. gerrymandering seems good for the party but bad for individual politicians in that party (and reverse for other side)
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because if there's not I'm probably going to do a chapter on it, because it would be easy to do, and mildly interesting
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just the reverse! idea in gerrymandering is: get lots of (eg) 55/45 districts + concentrate opposition in a few 20/80 districts
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HUH. Even more interesting. Yeah for many incumbents optimal district tilt is maybe not tooooo far from (say) 55/45.
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and the existence of this outcome seems eminently testable :)
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I'll pitch it to my advisor if it passes an initial lit review! lemme know if you want > an acknowledgement in hypthtcl paper ^^
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