{"id":11752,"date":"2026-06-01T10:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/?p=11752"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:35:23","slug":"%ef%bc%91%ef%bc%92%e6%9c%88%ef%bc%92%ef%bc%90%e6%97%a5%e7%8f%be%e6%94%bf%e7%a0%94%e3%82%bb%e3%83%9f%e3%83%8a%e3%83%bc%ef%bc%88%e5%a0%80%e4%ba%95%e4%ba%ae%e5%85%88%e7%94%9f%ef%bc%89%e3%81%ae-12-2-2-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/other-en\/2026\/06\/01\/11752\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe political economy of redistricting: voters, firms and donors\u201d by Prof. Jeffrey F. Timmons (NYU Abu Dhabi), June 2, 17:00."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30e8\u30fc\u30af\u5927\u5b66\u30a2\u30d6\u30c0\u30d3\u6821\u306e<\/span>Jeffrey F. Timmons<\/span><\/a>\u51c6\u6559\u6388<\/span>\u3092\u304a\u8fce\u3048\u3057\u3001\u201c<\/span>The political economy of redistricting: voters,\u00a0firms\u00a0and donors<\/span>\u201d\u3068\u984c\u3057\u3066\u5b9f\u8a3c\u653f\u6cbb\u5b66\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30d7\u3092\u958b\u50ac\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002<\/span>\u3069\u306a\u305f\u3067\u3082\u3054\u53c2\u52a0\u3044\u305f\u3060\u3051\u307e\u3059\u3002\u4e8b\u524d\u767b\u9332\u306f\u4e0d\u8981\u3067\u3059\u3002\u305c\u3072\u3054\u53c2\u52a0\u4e0b\u3055\u3044\u3002<\/span>
\n<\/span>We\u00a0are\u00a0very pleased\u00a0to host<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Associate Professor<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Jeffrey F. Timmons<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(<\/span>NYU Abu Dhabi<\/span>)\u00a0<\/span>for a special talk with the title<\/span>\u00a0\u201c<\/span>The political economy of redistricting: voters, firms and donors<\/span>\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Pre-registration is not\u00a0required<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>We look forward to your participation.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>\u65e5\u6642\uff1a<\/strong>2026\u5e746\u67082\u65e5\uff08\u706b\uff0917:00\u00a0pm \u2013\u00a018:40\u00a0pm
\nDate and Time:<\/strong>\u00a0Tuesday,\u00a0June 2,\u00a02026,\u00a017:00\u00a0pm \u2013\u00a018:40\u00a0pm<\/p>\n

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\nVenue\uff1a<\/strong>Room\u00a0406,\u00a0Building 3, Waseda Campus<\/a>,\u00a0Waseda\u00a0University<\/p>\n

\u8a00\u8a9eLanguage\uff1a<\/strong>\u82f1\u8a9eEnglish<\/p>\n

<\/span>\u8981\u65e8Abstract\uff1a<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>
\n<\/span>This talk explains and\u00a0expands on\u00a0the concept of economic gerrymandering, introduced in Artes, Kaufman, Richter, and Timmons (2025). Whereas most prior research on the manipulation of electoral district boundaries, known as gerrymandering, has focused entirely on the strategic allocations of\u00a0particular voters\u00a0and social groups to\u00a0particular districts, we provide a conceptual framework for broadening the study of gerrymandering to other potential objects\/entities with political value. We then use simulations and outlier analysis with a sample of US states and two redistricting cycles (2012, 2022) to compare the potential allocation of seats, firms, and major political donors in US congressional districts to the actual allocations of seats, firms, and donors. Our results reveal four things: first, seat maximization regularly occurs in states controlled by Democrats, but is less common in Republican-controlled states; second, political parties frequently place big firms and big donors in congressional districts they expect to win (i.e., they gerrymander them) when given the opportunity during the decennial redistricting process; third, donors increasingly shift their donations towards the party that re-engineered their political geography, seemingly confirming both the instrumental nature of their donation strategy and the financial value to parties of having re-engineering these donors\u2019 political geography; fourth, the pattern of gerrymandering of donors and change in donor behavior does not extend to places where non-partisan bodies control the redistricting process. In other words, political parties use redistricting to capture far more than voters, locking in financial relationships that bolster their political power.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Contact\uff1a\u00a0<\/strong>\u65e5\u91ce\u611b\u90ce\uff08\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\uff09\u00a0<\/span>Airo Hino<\/span>\u00a0(<\/span>Waseda\u00a0University)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>airo@waseda.jp<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30e8\u30fc\u30af\u5927\u5b66\u30a2\u30d6\u30c0\u30d3\u6821\u306eJeffrey F. Timmons\u51c6\u6559\u6388\u3092\u304a\u8fce\u3048\u3057\u3001\u201cThe political economy of redistricting: voters,\u00a0firms\u00a0and donors\u201d\u3068\u984c\u3057 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,105],"tags":[99,102,18,101],"class_list":["post-11752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-en","category-other","tag-events-en","tag-general-en","tag-events","tag-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11756,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions\/11756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/winpec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}