Censuses, enumeration, classification
Nancy Krieger, Politics, Public Health, and the Census
Bowker and Star, from Sorting Things Out
B.R. Ambedkar, From Millions to Fractions (on counting Untouchables)
Legal overview of actual redistricting practices
Realist’s Guide to Redistricting
Partisan metrics
Bernstein and Duchin, A Formula Goes to Court: Partisan Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap
Katz, King, and Rosenblatt, (the case for partisan symmetry)
Political philosophy
Dahl, On Democracy, Ch 8, What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require?
Political science methods
Nancy Hite-Rubin, How financial modernization disrupts patronage
and NHR, Field Experiments to Identify “Invisible People”
Ecological inference
King, Rosen, Tanner, (Adding MCMC to King’s EI)
Communities of Interest
Mac Donald and Cain, Community of Interest Methodology and Public Testimony
Fishkin, “Deliberative Polling and Public Opinion”
Gardner, “Representation without Party” (see esp. footnotes on p58 of PDF for case law) and Political Community
several by Stephanopoulos: California, Spatial Territory, Community
Antioch, CA’s “What is a COI?” info page (plus see sidebar for their collection link) and another sample draft COI collection form
Levine, “The Paradox of Community Power”
Rodríguez-Muñiz, “Cultivating Consent”
Young, “Social Groups and Judgments of Injustice”
Massey, “Questions of Locality”
Harris & Weiner, “Empowerment, Marginalization, and ‘Community-integrated’ GIS”
Examples of community structure of districts being described after the fact:
- California (see district descriptions starting on p28)
- Pennsylvania governor’s map (courtesy of wayback machine)
Districting Criteria
Cain and Mac Donald, The Implications of Nesting in CA Redistricting