is there any empirical analysis of whether gerrymandering seems intended to benefit party as a whole vs its most powerful members?
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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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most of the GOP fears losing in primaries to more far-right candidates, which seems like possible effect of gerrymanding
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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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didn't realize they'd be encouraging a further shift to the right - or they imagined that was a good thing
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and the existence of this outcome seems eminently testable :)
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go for it! i haven't the time right now, with an infant at home
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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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isn't it good for individual incumbents? gerrymandered districts are safer
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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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