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The Electoral Innovation Lab / Princeton Gerrymandering Project will present a virtual Academic Talk with Jonathan Rodden, Professor of Political Science at Stanford and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Rodden’s talk is titled “Partisan Dislocation: A Precinct-Level Measure of Representation and Gerrymandering,” and will take place in this Zoom room at 1:30 PM ET on December 10th. Please RSVP to jrhode@princeton.edu  Jonathan Rodden is a professor in the political science department at Stanford who works on the comparative political economy of institutions. He has writte...

The Electoral Innovation Lab will present a virtual Academic Talk with Edward Foley, the Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law and Director of Election Law at Ohio State, and the former Solicitor General of Ohio. The talk, titled “Self-districting: the ultimate antidote to gerrymandering,” will take place at 1:30 PM ET on December 3rd. Please RSVP to jrhode@princeton.edu  While much of the anti-gerrymandering focus of the last decade was on measures of partisan bias (like the “efficiency gap”), the new post-2020 maps are showing the incre...