Measuring legislative boundaries

Christopher Chambers and Alan Miller

Mathematical Social Sciences, 2013, vol. 66, issue 3, 268-275

Abstract: 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).

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2013.06.001

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