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Record W1999637083 · doi:10.1080/00344890903257565

FROM GERRY‐BUILT TO PURPOSE‐BUILT: DRAWING ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES FOR UNBIASED ELECTION OUTCOMES

2009· article· en· W1999637083 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueRepresentation · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicElectoral Systems and Political Participation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLegitimacyRepresentation (politics)Supreme courtPolitical scienceCommissionElectoral systemProportional representationFunction (biology)Boundary (topology)Law and economicsLawEconomicsDemocracyPoliticsMathematics

Abstract

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Electoral bias causes unfair election results that call into question the legitimacy of governments and undermine confidence in the integrity of the electoral system. Biased electoral outcomes in the UK, Canada and Australia are often accepted as an inherent function of a single‐member system, not remediable by independent boundary commissions because they are required to work without taking partisan considerations into account. Meanwhile the US Supreme Court cannot decide on a point beyond which bias should be struck down. Those who do not accept the inevitability of unfair election outcomes see proportional representation as the solution, but the cost—loss of the representational value of single member districts—makes this a contestable solution. But if boundaries could be drawn to produce an unbiased electoral system and generate fair electoral outcomes, single‐member districts could be retained and confidence could be returned. South Australia requires its independent boundaries commission to do just that, and the results indicate that fair electoral outcomes can indeed be produced.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.292
Threshold uncertainty score0.971

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.089
GPT teacher head0.443
Teacher spread0.354 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it