ASA 2023 has been a good meeting (thus far at least)! A well-attended session on the future of democracy featured Melissa Murray and Louise Seamster (ably moderated by Scatterplot’s own Dan Hirschmann). The conversation was great, and I learned quite a bit from both of the scholars. Recent court decisions by SCOTUS and the lower courts really do threaten democratic representation, and the talks explained just how these decisions are at once dangerous and ungrounded. Similar for other institutional questions, e.g., egregious gerrymandering.
That said, the panel raised a couple of issues I thought I’d raise here (after the break)….
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