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A Political Redistricting Tool for the Rest of Us - References and Acknowledgments

Author(s): 
Evan Kleiner (Whitman College) and Albert Schueller (Whitman College)

References

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Acknowledgments

  • The work here was completed under a Perry Summer Research grant from Whitman College. We are grateful to the donors that support this important program without which this work would not have been possible.
  • We would also like to thank Amy Molitor, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, for her invaluable help in obtaining population and map data from the ArcGIS software package.

Evan Kleiner (Whitman College) and Albert Schueller (Whitman College), "A Political Redistricting Tool for the Rest of Us - References and Acknowledgments," Convergence (October 2013)