Russia's regions vary by how strongly their leaderships exert administrative control over politics. Those that have lost their political competitiveness did so at different times. Using a measure of regional noncompetitiveness drawn from federal electoral results at the regional level, we...

This paper provides an empirical exploration of the potential gains from socially optimal districting. As emphasized in the political science literature, districting matters because it determines the seat-vote curve, which relates the fraction of seats parties obtain to their share of the...