Title: Gerrymandering and drawing of assembly and parliamentary constituencies in India : A case of Himachal Pradesh
Abstract: Gerrymandering is a mechanism of drawing constituency boundaries to favour one party over others. While the best known examples may be partisan, where the interest is to obtain more seats for a party than its share of votes warrants, gerrymandering can also be effective at helping or hurting the voting power of groups within one party or particular geographic places or communities. And while it is usually intentional, the discriminatory effect of gerrymandering can be the unintentional consequence of a plan that the author believed was not a gerrymander.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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