The drawing of district lines is essential for elections of members of legislative bodies in the single member district system used in the USA. A widely accepted criterion for good districting plans is that the number of splits of political subdivisions be minimized. A fundamental mathematical...

This paper explores the decline of Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland identifying with Irish unity. This paper argues that consociationalism, albeit within the framework of devolution, may have expedited a change in nationalist identities. Thus, while consociationalism is often accused of...