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Population Redistribution and Changes in the Size-Density Slope

Author(s) -

G. Edward Stephan,

Karen H. Stephan

Publication year - 1984

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061025

Subject(s) - redistribution (election) , population density , population , unit (ring theory) , logarithm , geography , statistics , mathematics , politics , economics , demography , sociology , political science , mathematical analysis , mathematics education , law

As regional population density increases territorial units tend to subdivide. For maximum societal time-efficiency the slope relating the logarithms of unit areas to those of unit densities should be −2/3. When boundaries become fixed, however, observed slopes tend to drift toward a value of zero. It was earlier hypothesized that such slope-erosion was due to increasing concentration of the population. Historical data for the primary political divisions of ten nations shows general support for the hypothesis.

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