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{"title":"Estimating Seats–Votes Partisan Advantage","authors":"Alec Ramsay","doi":"10.1089/elj.2022.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/elj.2022.0031","url":null,"abstract":"A new classification of metrics is introduced: Seats–Votes Partisan Advantage (). Metrics in this class measure whether redistricting plans favor one political party or the other. Ten prominent measures of partisan bias are computed for a cross-section of past, present, and hypothetical congressional plans and are classified with respect to this new taxonomy. Of these ten, only (dis)proportionality and the efficiency gap are found to be measures of . One newer metric measures as well.","PeriodicalId":45644,"journal":{"name":"Election Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135130791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2022","authors":"","doi":"10.1089/elj.2022.29003.ack","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/elj.2022.29003.ack","url":null,"abstract":"Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and PolicyVol. 22, No. 1 AcknowledgmentFree AccessAcknowledgment of Reviewers 2022Published Online:17 Mar 2023https://doi.org/10.1089/elj.2022.29003.ackAboutSectionsPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Critical evaluations of articles by expert reviewers make a vital contribution to ensuring the high quality of a journal's content. The editorial leadership of Election Law Journal is very grateful for the support of the highly qualified peer reviewers who have dedicated their time and effort to reviewing our articles. We would like to show our appreciation by thanking the following individuals for their assistance with the review of articles for the journal in 2022.Gayle AlberdaTheodore AllenBrian AmosStephen AnsolabehereJoseph AnthonyAndrew AppelLonna AtkesonSamuel BaltzChristina BarskyAntoinette BaujardBrady BaybeckLudvig BeckmanSarah BirchJean-Nicolas BordeleauDaniel BowenBeau BreslinThomas BrunellLisa BryantAustin BuchananBarry BurdenErnesto CalvoJoseph CerroneJonathan CervasDana ChisnellRyan ClaassenAlistair ClarkJesse ClarkJeanne ClellandDavid CottrellBenjamin CoverBrian CrispJohn CurielStephen DawsonDaryl DeFordRichard DeMilloDavid DohertyTodd DonovanConor DowlingMoon DuchinAndrew EggersJon EguiaRobert EriksonAleksander EssexBernard FragaAmy FriedElliott FullmerBrian GainesHolly Ann GarnettNadine GibsonJames GimpelDara GoldMark GraberMatthew GrahamMichael GreenbergerDaniel GreenwoodBrian HamelMichael HanmerErik HerronMichael HerronGregory HerschlagEitan HershBenjamin HightonM. Hood IIIKosuke ImaiRobert JacksonMichael JankowskiMichael KangAlex KeenaDavid KimballThad KousserMartha KropfMatt LambSharon LaskowskiJan LeighleyYimeng LiDavid LublinBeth MalmskogAnita ManionEric McGheeMarc MeredithLia MerivakiMelissa MichelsonNicholas MillerJacob MontgomeryThomas MustilloJohn NagleJacob NeiheiselBrendan NyhanJesse RhodesMichael RitterDavid RothschildCynthia RugeleyScot SchraufnagelDavid SchultzHoward SchweberEnrijeta ShinoDaniel SmithJustin SolomonTyler SteelmanRobert SteinLaura StephensonCharles StewartMara Suttman-LeaIhaab SyedJan TeorellDari TranAdriano UdaniEllen VeomettSamuel WangGreg WarringtonRyan WilliamsonRobert YablonElizabeth ZechmeisterFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 22Issue 1Mar 2023 InformationCopyright 2023, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishersTo cite this article:Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2022.Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy.Mar 2023.100-100.http://doi.org/10.1089/elj.2022.29003.ackPublished in Volume: 22 Issue 1: March 17, 2023PDF download","PeriodicalId":45644,"journal":{"name":"Election Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135130798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Typologies of Party Finance Systems: A Comparative Study of How Countries Regulate Party Finance and Their Institutional Foundations.","authors":"David L Wiltse,&nbsp;Raymond J La Raja,&nbsp;Dorie E Apollonio","doi":"10.1089/elj.2018.0493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/elj.2018.0493","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study catalogues party finance laws in multiple countries and identifies institutional factors that correspond to laws countries choose to adopt. Using data from international sources, we assessed differences in the regulation of money in elections in over 120 states. We classified countries into four types of party finance regimes along two axes: one that reflects regulations affecting party income and a second that reflects rules intended to make party finance more transparent. We found that two institutional factors are associated with the extent of government regulation in financing politics: the type of legal system and the use of proportional representation. Our study provides a new conceptual framework to categorize party finance regimes based on various types of regulations and the linkages between institutional factors and the extent of regulation. This conceptual typology offers a method to assess relationships between finance systems and political outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":45644,"journal":{"name":"Election Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/elj.2018.0493","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39002305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantifying Gerrymandering Using the Vote Distribution","authors":"S. WarringtonGregory","doi":"10.1089/ELJ.2017.0447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/ELJ.2017.0447","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract One way to assess the presence of gerrymandering is to analyze the distribution of votes. The efficiency gap, which does this, plays a central role in a 2016 federal court case on the constitutionality of Wisconsin's state legislative district plan. Unfortunately, however, the efficiency gap reduces to proportional representation, an expectation that is not a constitutional right. We present a new measure of partisan asymmetry that does not rely on the shapes of districts, is simple to compute, is provably related to the “packing and cracking” integral to gerrymandering, and that avoids the constitutionality issue presented by the efficiency gap. In addition, we introduce a generalization of the efficiency gap that also avoids the equivalency to proportional representation. We apply the first function to U.S. congressional and state legislative plans from recent decades to identify candidate gerrymanders.","PeriodicalId":45644,"journal":{"name":"Election Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82829279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do Drop Boxes Improve Voter Turnout? Evidence From King County, Washington","authors":"Loren Collingwood, William H. McGuire, B. O’Brien, K. Baird, S. Hampson","doi":"10.1089/ELJ.2017.0450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/ELJ.2017.0450","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Considerable interest among academics and practitioners alike centers around identifying ways to improve voter turnout and voting parity across various subgroups in the U.S. population. Many scholars have investigated convenience voting and found mixed results in terms of its effects on turnout and its composition. A relatively new but unstudied method of voting is via ballot drop box, a method states and voters have increasingly turned to. We exploit the placement of over 30 new drop boxes in King County, Washington, the home of Seattle, during the 2016 election to investigate their effect on turnout. We find that distance to the closest ballot drop box increases one's probability of voting but primarily in off-year elections and primaries. We find mixed results for heterogeneous treatment effects. Implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45644,"journal":{"name":"Election Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/ELJ.2017.0450","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46061084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public Hearings and Congressional Redistricting: Evidence from the Western United States 2011–2012","authors":"MillerPeter, GrofmanBernard","doi":"10.1089/ELJ.2016.0425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/ELJ.2016.0425","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We test theories about the effects of public input into redistricting, with evidence taken from remarks made in person at public hearings. One model, the cynical model, features legislator...","PeriodicalId":45644,"journal":{"name":"Election Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/ELJ.2016.0425","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47275483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact of Political Geography on Wisconsin Redistricting: An Analysis of Wisconsin's Act 43 Assembly Districting Plan","authors":"ChenJowei","doi":"10.1089/ELJ.2017.0455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/ELJ.2017.0455","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article illustrates how the relationship between political geography and the electoral bias of a districting plan, as measured by the efficiency gap, can be analyzed in a statistically rigorous manner using computer simulations of the legislative redistricting process. By generating a large number of different districting plans designed to optimize on traditional redistricting criteria, the computer simulation process demonstrates the range of districting plans that would likely emerge from a neutral, non-gerrymandered process. Courts and litigants can then draw inferences by comparing the efficiency gap of an enacted districting plan against this range of simulated plans. I use this method to illustrate how Wisconsin's Act 43 created an Assembly districting plan with an extreme, Republican-favoring efficiency gap that would not have been possible under a map-drawing process that prioritizes traditional redistricting criteria.","PeriodicalId":45644,"journal":{"name":"Election Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/ELJ.2017.0455","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46177124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fraud, plot, or collective delusion?: Social media and perceptions of electoral misconduct in the 2014 scottish independence referendum","authors":"Alistair Clarke, Brian Fogarty, Philip Habel","doi":"10.1089/ELJ.2016.0393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/ELJ.2016.0393","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Online discussions of electoral fraud are becoming an increasingly important aspect of the electoral landscape in many contexts, as cyberspace is one of the few places where concerns about electoral conduct can be aired openly and freely. But it is often difficult to assess what this online activity tells us about actual electoral processes. This article analyzes a surge of tweets about electoral fraud at the time of the Scottish independence referendum of 2014 in order to ascertain whether this online activity reflected: (a) actual offline fraud observed by the social media users, (b) a concerted effort to undermine confidence in electoral administration, or (c) a collective delusion. Data mining and machine learning techniques are deployed in this analysis, which comes out strongly in favor of the collective delusion hypothesis.","PeriodicalId":45644,"journal":{"name":"Election Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/ELJ.2016.0393","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45556068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Poll Worker Recruitment: Evidence from the Mexican Case","authors":"CantúFrancisco, LeySandra","doi":"10.1089/ELJ.2016.0385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/ELJ.2016.0385","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The success of a democratic election greatly depends on poll workers. However, our knowledge of citizen engagement in the organization of elections is still limited. This article studies the contextual factors that shape citizens' decisions to volunteer as poll workers. To accomplish this task, we take advantage of an original feature of the Mexican election system: the participation of randomly selected citizens in organizing and overseeing the operation of polling stations. We argue that the sociopolitical context in which elections take place greatly affects work at the polls. In particular, electoral competition and rising violence affect the organization of elections and citizen participation in this process. We find that competitive elections facilitate poll worker recruitment, especially in the early stages of the democratization process. However, at the same time, criminal violence depresses citizen participation in the organization of elections. This article contributes to the developing...","PeriodicalId":45644,"journal":{"name":"Election Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/ELJ.2016.0385","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41278095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Authors' Response to elj.2017.0461–Values and Validations: Proper Criteria for Comparing Standards for Packing Gerrymanders","authors":"Robin E. Best, Shawn J. Donahue, Jonathan S. Krasno, Daniel B. Magleby, M. McDonald","doi":"10.1089/ELJ.2017.0471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/ELJ.2017.0471","url":null,"abstract":"We explain why Eric McGhee’s criticisms of our effort to establish a standard for detecting packing gerrymanders sometimes misapprehends and other times misunderstands the proper evaluation criteria.","PeriodicalId":45644,"journal":{"name":"Election Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2017-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/ELJ.2017.0471","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61001759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}