Political districting: from classical models to recent approaches

Political districting: from classical models to recent approaches

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Article ID: iaor20118589
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 223
End Page Number: 254
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Journal: 4OR
Authors: , ,
Keywords: location
Abstract:

The political districting problem has been studied since the 60s and many different models and techniques have been proposed with the aim of preventing districts' manipulation which may favor some specific political party (gerrymandering). A variety of political districting models and procedures was provided in the Operations Research literature, based on single‐ or multiple‐objective optimization. Starting from the forerunning papers published in the 60’s, this article reviews some selected optimization models and algorithms for political districting which gave rise to the main lines of research on this topic in the Operations Research literature of the last five decades.

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