Political Districting: from classical models to recent approaches

Political Districting: from classical models to recent approaches

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Article ID: iaor20132697
Volume: 204
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 271
End Page Number: 299
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Journal: Annals of Operations Research
Authors: , ,
Keywords: literature survey, political districting
Abstract:

The Political Districting problem has been studied since the 60’s 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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