Articles
EIL produces in-depth scholarly analysis and legal briefs. Often their content both address specific problems and set out a coherent school of thought for others to follow. The following are examples of published pieces produced by the leaders and collaborators of EIL. In particular, a scholarly article (in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) sets a theory for change that has the potential to recruit academics to work on practical change.
Key academic publications
S.-H. Wang; H. Goldberg; and J.S. Rubin (2023) "Three Tests for Bias Arising From the Design of Primary Election Ballots in New Jersey," Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy: Vol. 48: Iss. 1, Article 2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.60095/VBRU6141
Available at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/shlj/vol48/iss1/2
S.J. Chen. S.S.-H. Wang, B. Grofman, R.F. Ober, Jr., K.T. Barnes, and J.R. Cervas (2022) Turning communities of interest into a rigorous standard for fair districting, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Volume XIII, Issue 1, 101-189.
S.S.-H. Wang, J.R. Cervas, B. Grofman, and K. Lipsitz (2021) A systems framework for remedying dysfunction in U.S. democracy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 118(50), e2102154118 (cover article).
N.E. Leonard, K. Lipsitz, A. Bizyaeva, A. Franci, Y. Lelkes (2021) The nonlinear feedback dynamics of asymmetric political polarization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 118(50), e2102149118.
S.S.-H. Wang (2016) Three tests for practical evaluation of partisan gerrymandering. 68 Stanford Law Review 1263-1321.
Legal briefs
Electoral Innovation Lab joined Common Cause New Mexico, Election Reformers Network, and the League of Women Voters of New Mexico in filing an amicus brief in Republican Party of New Mexico et al., v. Maggie Toulouse Oliver, et al., a case challenging the state’s congressional maps. August 14, 2023.
Amicus curiae brief in support of defendants, 1:20-cv-00257-Lew Hagopian et al v. Dunlap et al. regarding ranked-choice voting elections in Maine. August 5, 2020. (cited in decision)
Additional publications
S.S.-H. Wang and R.F. Ober Jr. (2023) All pain, whose gain? A fifty-state analysis of the independent state legislature doctrine for redistricting. U. New Hampshire Law Review, forthcoming.
J. Cervas, B. Grofman, and S. Matsuda (2023) The role of state courts in constraining partisan gerrymandering in Congressional elections. U. New Hampshire Law Review, forthcoming.
J. Cervas and B. Grofman (2022). Why Donald Trump should be a fervent advocate of using rank-choice voting in 2024. PS: Political Science and Politics, 551 1-6.
K. Lipsitz, J. Padilla (2021) The nonlinear effects of political advertising. Journal of Political Marketing, 1-14.
R.F. Ober Jr., S.S.-H. Wang, and A. Barden (2021) Up by their bootstraps: will a new Supreme Court let legislatures bypass governors over redistricting? Albany Law Review: State Constitutional Commentary, 83.4.
J. Cervas and B. Grofman (2020). Legal, political science and economics approaches to measuring malapportionment: the U.S. House, the Senate, and the Electoral College 1790-2010. Social Science Quarterly, 101(6):2238-2256.
S.S.-H. Wang and J.S. Canter (2020) The best laid plans: unintended consequences of the American Presidential selection system. Harvard Law and Policy Review, 15:401-428.