Powell, Clark publish in Election Law Journal
Richard Powell, professor in the Department of Political Science, and UMaine Political Science alumnus Jesse Clark have published an article in the Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy. The article, “Partisan Gerrymandering, Clustering, or Both? A New Approach to a Persistent Question,” is a collaboration with Matthew Dube at the University of Maine at Augusta that uses simulations based in graph theory to explore whether partisan bias in the U.S. House of Representatives is due to demographic clustering or intentional gerrymandering. The authors found that while there is a significant amount of demographic clustering, redistricting accounts for a much greater portion of the partisan bias in the House.