Schedule
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Part I: Voting
January 25, 2023: The axiomatic approach
February 20, 2023: University holiday
February 27, 2023: Discussion of voting
Part II: Allocation
March 13, 2023: Spring break
March 15, 2023: Spring break
April 5, 2023: Identifying gerrymandered maps
Instructor: Moon Duchin
Statistical techniques for identifying when a map has been engineered to be biased to one party.
[ video available by request ]
April 12, 2023: Discussion of allocation
Part III: Miscellanea
April 17, 2023: Embedded EthiCS
Instructor: TBA
A discussion of selected questions in political philosophy: abstention vs. uninformed voting, referendum vs. sortition, and epistocracy vs. universal suffrage.
[ slides | handout | video ]
April 19, 2023: Course project presentations
Groups: Deschler-Rusak-Shapira-Zhang | Du-Rozenberg-Tankala | Gu-Glynn | Cerborne-McInroy-Schettino-Smith
April 24, 2023: Course project presentations
Groups: Cho-Lee-Nickerson-Song | Bossa-Ham-Gupta-Kikkisetti | Alemu-Shuman-Rimonor | Gulati-Howard-Reiber | Bohnet Zurcher-Brinkmann-Fu
April 26, 2023: Course project presentations
Groups: Chen-Meister-Gao | Cui-Han-Sullivan-Zhang | Cooke-Holmes-Thornton | Hu-Kopparapu-Li