Measuring legislative boundaries

Christopher P. Chambers; Alan D. Miller

doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2013.06.001

Measuring legislative boundaries

Christopher P. Chambers, Alan D. Miller

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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).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	268-275
Number of pages	8
Journal	Mathematical Social Sciences
Volume	66
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2013.06.001
State	Published - Nov 2013

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Sociology and Political Science
General Social Sciences
General Psychology
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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