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Measuring legislative boundaries

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  • Chambers, Christopher P.
  • Miller, Alan D.

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We introduce the first family of district compactness measures that can incorporate a wide range of internal geographic features. The measures in this family are the probability that a district contains an admissible path between a randomly selected pair of people. The measure can account for roads, travel time, political boundaries, and prior districts. This family of measures includes the path-based measure of Chambers and Miller (2010).

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  • Chambers, Christopher P. & Miller, Alan D., 2013. "Measuring legislative boundaries," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 66(3), pages 268-275.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:matsoc:v:66:y:2013:i:3:p:268-275
    DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2013.06.001
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    1. Chambers, Christopher P. & Miller, Alan D., 2010. "A Measure of Bizarreness," Quarterly Journal of Political Science, now publishers, vol. 5(1), pages 27-44, April.
    2. Roland G. Fryer Jr. & Richard Holden, 2011. "Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 54(3), pages 493-535.
    3. Taylor, Peter J., 1973. "A New Shape Measure for Evaluating Electoral District Patterns," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 67(3), pages 947-950, September.
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