Can Compactness Constrain the Gerrymander?
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Can compactness constrain the Gerrymander?
Gerrymandering—the manipulation of electoral boundaries to maximize constituency wins—is often seen as a pathology of democratic systems. A commonly cited cure is to require that electoral constituencies have a ‘compact’ shape. But how much of a constraint does compactness in fact place on would-be gerrymanderers? We operationalize compactness as a convexity constraint and apply a theorem of Ka...
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عنوان ژورنال: Irish Political Studies
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0790-7184,1743-9078
DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2011.619741