Don’t let the lawyers do the math: Some problems of legislative districting in the UK and the USA
A fair allocation of electoral districts would give each citizen as near as possible an equal share of power, as measured by standard power indices which operationalize ‘power’ as ‘pivotality’. The practical difficulties of implementing this principle are discussed, with reference to the UK and the...
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Elsevier
2008
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