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The gerrymandering of cities and the politics of racial exclusion: Evidence from a spatial typology of municipal boundary changes.

Municipal annexation is the most common means by which local governments in the United States redraw their jurisdictional borders. The highly contentious process often leads to the gerrymandering of city borders. In this study, we use the Python programming language to develop a method for identifyi...

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Published in:Journal of Urban Affairs Vol. 45; no. 9; pp. 1586 - 1608
Main Authors: Durst, Noah J., Cai, Meng, Tillison-Love, Jada, Huang, Huiqing, Henry, Wisdom
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2023
Subjects:
Social marginality
Local government
Gerrymandering
Annexation (County government)
Python programming language
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