Racial Fairness in Legislative Redistricting

Author: 
King, Gary, John Bruce, and Andrew Gelman
Volume, Number & Page: 
Classifying by Race (Book): 85-108
Publication Info: 
Princeton University Press
Date: 
1995
Scholars have developed a standard of fairness for redistricting in terms of partisanship, but have not done so in terms of race. This chapter's stated purpose is to "propose a directed research agenda for studies" of this kind of fairness.
Difficulty Level: 
3