Evaluating the impact of redistricting on district homogeneity, political competition, and political extremism in the U.S. house of representatives, 1962 to 2006

Designing Democratic Government: Making Institutions Work

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 117-140

  Brunell, Thomas L ^a   Grofman, Bernard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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