"Should fairness to political parties be the standard for evaluating legislative redistricting? Across the nation, state lawmakers are jockeying to advantage their party – be it Republican or Democratic – while drawing boundaries for legislative and congressional districts. If the Freedom to Vote Act currently before Congress passes, many state maps that favor one party will become illegal.
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Students have been working hard to find interesting topics and have carefully designed their studies to test empirical hypotheses this term in Prof. Horiuchi's GOVT 10:Quantitative Political Analysis.
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Feyaad Allie graduated from Dartmouth College in 2016 with major in Government and minor in Geography. While at Dartmouth, Feyaad served as a research assistant to professors Ben Valentino, Brian Greenhill, and Dirk Vandewalle. He also participated in the Government Foreign Study Program at the London School of Economics where he developed an interest in studying countering violence extremism programs and their impact on Muslim communities in the UK. Feyaad's senior honors thesis used survey experiments and interviews in London to examine this topic.
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The Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation, a memorial to our thirty-third President, awards merit-based scholarships to college students planning careers in public service.
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