Partisan bias and redistricting in France |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies (CEE) and LIEPP (ANR-11-LABX-0091, ANR-11-IDEX-005-02), CNRS, 75007 Paris, France;2. Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine, USA;1. Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance, University of Calabria, Italy;2. Faculty of Economics, VŠB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic;3. School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK;1. Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, United States;2. Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, United States;3. Computing, Environment and Life Sciences Directorate, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, United States |
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| Abstract: | Decided by the executive, redistrictings in France have been claimed to have substantial partisan bias in favor of the right. We examine the evidence for this claim in terms of France's left bloc versus right bloc politics, combining information from both the first and the second round of France's two round electoral system. We also examine data at the constituency level to look at factors, such as malapportionment, that can affect bias. As France is characterized by a pattern of a limited number of redistrictings, population inequalities have grown in legislative constituencies between plans. Although the procedures used to draw constituency boundaries for the French Assembly are rather opaque, and under the control of political authorities, partisan bias appears as minuscule. |
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| Keywords: | Partisan bias Malaportionment Redistricting Legislative elections (France -1988-2012) |
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