Electoral Districts in Chile: Optimizing Socio-Economic Homogeneity and Demographic Balance

Electoral Districts in Chile: Optimizing Socio-Economic Homogeneity and Demographic Balance

This article addresses the problem of unequal representation in Chile, where the current districting does not effectively consider its socio-economic diversity. An innovative methodology is proposed that uses the socio-economic dissimilarity distance (SED) obtained using a cluster analysis to create...

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Main Authors: Rodrigo Rebolledo, Maykol Reinoso, Óscar Cornejo, Carlos Obreque, Felipe Baesler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-01-01
Series:Systems
Subjects:
political districting
socio-economic criteria
cluster analysis
contiguity
malapportionment
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/13/2/85

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