A Measure of Bizarreness
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We introduce a path-based measure of convexity to be used in assessing the compactness of legislative districts. Our measure is the probability that a district will contain the shortest path between a randomly selected pair of its’ points. The measure is defined relative to exogenous political boundaries and population distributions. JEL classification: D72, K00, K19
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تاریخ انتشار 2008