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In Mexico City, in the heyday of the Porfirio Díaz’s regime (1877-1911), a telephone system was developed by a private carrier, whose parent company was American Bell Telephone Company, which grew into a privately owned monopoly that served a clientele made up mostly of businessmen and...
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Since its inception in Mexico City the Mexican Telephone Company tried to deal with a budding market in an organized way. to do so it used several methods and approaches, including monopy pricing, suing potential competitors for patent violations, and controling the supply of technology. This...
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one party can win, given the distribution of individual votes (the 'optimal gerrymandering rule'). As a corollary, we …
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taken into account when redesigning electoral jurisdictions through, for instance, municipal mergers or gerrymandering. …
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While gerrymandering in developing countries is often pushed by local authorities to secure political advantages …
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possibilities. Apportionment and districting are two critical issues that emerge in relation to democratic elections. Theoreticians …
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Gerrymandering undermines representative democracy by creating many uncompetitive legislative districts, and generating … develop a redistricting game between two parties who both seek an advantage in upcoming elections, and show that we can …
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Gerrymandering undermines representative democracy by creating many uncompetitive legislative districts, and generating … develop a redistricting game between two parties who both seek an advantage in upcoming elections, and show that we can …
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The idea of proportional representation has been circulating for over two hundred years and is widely practiced, among other, in post-war Europe. The primary focus is to allow smaller parties, minorities and other disenfranchised groups in society systematic representation in the national...
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