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Optimal redistricting under geographical constraints: Why "pack and crack" does not work [PDF]
, 2008 We show that optimal partisan redistricting with geographical constraints is a computationally intractable (NP-complete) problem. In particular, even when voter's preferences are deterministic, a solution is generally not obtained by concentrating ...
Altman +9 more
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Il Linguadoca-Rossiglione: culture politiche e geografia elettorale di una regione francese
QOE-IJES, 2002 Una regione differenziata. Cultura politica e culture politiche. Dal Midi rouge alla sinistra del Linguadoca. Un Midi blanc? Diversificazione o declino delle culture politiche regionali?
Emmanuel Négrier
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Geography of Electoral Districting or Gerrymandering and Malapportionment, Romanian‑style
Sfera Politicii, 2015 In 2008, Romania instituted an electoral system that uses proportional methods for distributing seats to political parties and uninominal constituencies for assigning parliamentary seats to candidates.
Aurelian Giugăl
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EchoGéoEven if national contexts remain over-determining, an analysis of the results of the European elections shows converging trends on a European scale: the rise of the extreme right and the stabilisation of the left as a whole, but with a recomposition ...
Christian Vandermotten +2 more
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L'Espace Politique, 2014 Sociological and geographical electoral studies differ, among other things, by the methods they use and the kinds of variables they are interested in, the former focusing on « sociological » variables whereas the latter adress « spatial » effects.
Joël Gombin
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Les États-Unis d’Amérique et la “Global Electoral Geography”.
EspacesTemps.net, 2008 The Economist publie ce mois-ci sur son site une animation proposant à l’ensemble des pays du Monde de prendre part à l’élection américaine. Au premier abord, rien de bien original : plus un jour ne s’est passé en cette veille électorale décisive, sans ...
Marc Dumont
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Les destins divergents des régionalismes flamands et francophones : une perspective historique
EchoGéo, 2011 The tensions between French-speaking and Dutch-speaking communities in Belgium about the regionalization of federal competences are not new and have to be understood in the long history of regionalism.
Geoffrey Pion, Gilles Van Hamme
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Discrete geometry for electoral geography
Political Geography"Compactness," or the use of shape as a proxy for fairness, has been a long-running theme in the scrutiny of electoral districts; badly-shaped districts are often flagged as examples of the abuse of power known as gerrymandering. The most popular compactness metrics in the redistricting literature belong to a class of scores that we call contour-based,
Moon Duchin, Bridget Eileen Tenner
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The Orange Order in Scotland since 1860: a social analysis [PDF]
, 2009 Book synopsis: Irish immigrants and their descendants have made a vital contribution to the creation of modern Scotland. This book is the first collection of essays on the Irish in Scotland for almost twenty years, and brings together for the first time ...
Kaufmann, Eric P.
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Revitalizing Electoral Geography Barney Wharf y Jonathan Leib (eds.).
Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 2012 Surrey y Burlington: Ashgate, 2011, 238 pp.
María Lois
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