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Video: Assessing California’s Redistricting Commission
March 21 2018
In a radical departure, California empowered an independent commission to create new electoral maps. A new PPIC report assesses the maps' fairness and competitiveness to both major political parties.
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Partisan Gerrymandering and the Role of Social Science in the Courts
October 23 2017
The Supreme Court has invited social science to play an unusually significant role in the Wisconsin gerrymandering case.
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Three Lessons About California’s Election Reforms
November 5 2014
California got its second taste of two important reforms yesterday: legislative and congressional districts drawn by an independent redistricting commission and a "top-two” primary system. How did they do this time around?
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Electoral Reforms Face New Test
May 15 2014
California’s political reforms—redistricting and the top-two primary—were meant to shake up the status quo, and in 2012, they didn’t disappoint. Things are calmer in this year’s legislative and congressional races.
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Rebooting California’s Congressional Delegation
March 11 2014
With this year’s retirements, more than a third of the California congressional delegation will have turned over by the time the dust settles this fall.
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