Implementing Partisan Symmetry: Problems and Paradoxes
Implementing Partisan Symmetry: Problems and Paradoxes
Abstract We consider the measures of partisan symmetry proposed for practical use in the political science literature, as clarified and developed in Katz, King, and Rosenblatt (2020, American Political Science Review 114, 164–178). Elementary mathematical manipulation shows the symmetry metrics to have surprising properties that call their meaningfulness into question. …