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Title: How Do Elites Capture a Democracy? Evidence from the Struggle to Control Congressional Redistricting

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: We test for whether political parties can exert precise control over the outcomes of high-stakes elections. We study elections that determine which party controls Congressional redistricting, which allows a party to construct districts that favor its own Congressional candidates. There is a discontinuous change in a partys control of redistricting when the share of seats won in the state legislature exceeds 50 percent. We show that a states incumbent party can precisely sort onto the winning side of the discontinuity. Parties sort to control redistricting in states where they have suffered recent Congressional losses. These declines are reversed by redistricting.

Url: http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Business_Taxation/Events/conferences/2016/PEUK/shenoy.pdf

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Authors: Jeong, Dahyeon; Shenoy, Ajay

Publisher: University of Oxford

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