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MSU |
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English |
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MSU |
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rda |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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HB73 JOU |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Fryer, Roland G. |
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author |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans |
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by Roland G. Fryer and Richard Holden |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Chicago: |
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University of Chicago Press; |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2011. |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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nc |
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| Title |
The Journal of Law and Economics |
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Volume 54, number 3 |
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We develop a measure of compactness based on the distance between voters within the same district relative to the minimum distance achievable, which we coin the relative proximity index. Any compactness measure that satisfies three desirable properties (anonymity of voters, efficient clustering, and invariance to scale, population density, and number of districts) ranks districting plans identically to our index. We then calculate the relative proximity index for the 106th Congress, which requires us to solve for each state’s maximal compactness—a problem that is nondeterministic polynomial-time hard (NP hard). The correlations between our index and the commonly used measures of dispersion and perimeter are −.37 and −.29, respectively. We conclude by estimating seat-vote curves under maximally compact districts for several large states. The fraction of additional seats a party obtains when its average vote increases is significantly greater under maximally compact districting plans relative to the existing plans |
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Algorithms |
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Centroids |
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Congressional districts |
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Electoral districts |
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Incumbents |
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Population density |
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Topological compactness |
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Voting |
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Voting precincts |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Holden, Richard |
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co author |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://doi.org/10.1086/661511 |
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Library of Congress Classification |
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Journal Article |