Strategic voting and legislative redistricting reform: district and statewide representational winners and losers

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 92-109

  Tolbert, Caroline J ^a   Smith, Daniel A ^b   Green, John C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballot initiative; Gerrymandering; Redistricting; Representation; Strategic voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 67949108224     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912908314201     Document Type: Article

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