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Gerrymandering: The revision of constituency boundaries with the aim of changing majorities and minorities. For example, a constituency with a majority for one party can be expanded along its boundaries so that the majority is no longer as significant. The term dates back to Governor Gerry of Massachusetts in the 19th century, who first used this technique._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Rawls on Gerrymandering - Dictionary of Arguments
I 223 Gerrymandering/Politics/Justice/Rawls: In order to prevent injustice, it is possible that sometimes a random element must be incorporated into the political process in order to mitigate excessive effects of contingent imbalances, e. g. in the delimitation of constituencies(1). >Justice/Rawls, >Injustice, cf. >Electoral Systems. 1. See W. S. Vickrey, „On the Prevention of Gerrymandering“, Political Science Quarterly, vol. 76, 1961._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Rawl I J. Rawls A Theory of Justice: Original Edition Oxford 2005 |