Gerrymandering untergräbt das Vertrauen in die Demokratie und studiert fast 30.000 US -Wähler. Wenn Politiker Kongressbezirkskarten neu gezogen haben, um ihre Partei zu bevorzugen, können sie kurzfristige Siege erzielen. Aber diese Siege können einen hohen Preis haben – ein Verlust des öffentlichen Glaubens an Wahlen und Demokratie selbst.
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/08/12/gerrymandering-erodes-confidence-democracy
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I’ve linked to the press release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X251352552
From the linked article:
Gerrymandering erodes confidence in democracy
UCR-led study draws from surveys of nearly 30,000 US voters
When politicians redraw congressional district maps to favor their party, they may secure short-term victories. But those wins can come at a steep price — a loss of public faith in elections and, ultimately, in democracy itself.
That’s the conclusion of a peer-reviewed study led by UC Riverside political scientist Shaun Bowler, published in Political Research Quarterly. The research finds that partisan gerrymandering — the manipulation of district boundaries to lock in political advantage — does more than distort representation in Congress. It undermines the belief that elections are fair, a cornerstone of democratic legitimacy
Not a problem for Republicans, who find democracy to be a hindrance.
I suspect the sophisticated reply is something along the lines of ‘cry more losers’.
If anything eroding faith in the value of voting seems to be part of the game plan.
And that loss of faith only helps the party doing the gerrymandering. It makes voters think their vote doesn’t matter. So obviously it will continue. And it’s always minorities taking the L.
Utilizing accumulated round-off errors is hardly representing a democratic voice of the people. What democracy?
The loss of faith is the long-term victory Republicunts count on. Its a feature, not a bug.
In other obvious news, the sun came up today.
>a loss of public faith in elections and democracy itself.
I think these are not serious concerns for the gerrymanderers.
While discussing this matter with various coworkers and friends, the general consensus is that the USA no longer exists, the American empire is dead, democracy is dead, the US is a dictatorship…
Nobody has a real argument to suggest any of that is not true.
Well, in the US Democrats have unilaterally disarmed by refusing to gerrymander large Democratic states like New York and California. Meanwhile the Republicans have gerrymandered aggressively and now have about 15 or 16 seats nationwide that they wouldn’t have with fair maps. We haven’t really gotten anything in exchange for our defense of fair democracy except losing a bunch of elections we shouldn’t have.
Hot off the presses! Politicians will do anything possible to keep their lucrative jobs!
Doesn’t seem to stop the police. Their public perception has been shot for a long time, and they continue on same as always. It’s what happens when the people have no say over how their tax dollars are spent
I’m from Ohio, I don’t know anyone who has any degree of faith in our ‚elected‘ leaders. Anything beneficial to the state has come from constitutional amendments and the GOP wants to shut that down as well.
We. Have. A. Solution.
[BDistricting](https://bolson.org/dist/)
Thats the point. They don’t want democracy
Seems like a loss in faith in the election system is a perk not a bug to the GOP at this point.
When the politicians pick their voters instead of the other way around it’s hard to say you have a true representative democracy
Who still has faith in elections?
I mean, yeah. Gerrymandering is inherently anti-democratic. You’d have to be a moron to not see why or how.
I don’t see a way that Gerrymandering could be anything other than a political process. who is going to draw the district lines? even if you formed some sort of non-partisan or bi-partisan organization, eventually it’d become corrupt and a political tug of war, then abolished. maybe I lack imagination but whenever there is an opportunity to draw favorable lines for a party in power, they will do it regardless of which side.