Gerrymandering and the Voting Rights Act of 1982: A public choice analysis of turnover in the U.S. House of Representatives

Public Choice

Volumn 93, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 357-371

  Mixon Jr , Franklin G ^a   Upadhyaya, Kamal P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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