Schedule

September 3, 2025: Course overview + voting rules
[ slides (overview) | slides (voting rules) | video ]

September 8, 2025: The axiomatic approach
[ slides | video ]

September 10, 2025: Arrow and friends
[ slides | video] 

September 15, 2025: Distortion
[ slides | video ]

September 17, 2025: Strategic manipulation
[ slides | video ]

September 22, 2025: Restricted preferences
[ slides | video ]

September 24, 2025: Quadratic voting and funding
[ slides | video ]

September 29, 2025: Electoral competition
[ slides | video ]

October 1, 2025: The epistemic approach
[ slides | video ]

October 6, 2025: Liquid democracy
[ slides | video ]

October 8, 2025: Committee elections
[ slides | video ]

October 15, 2025: Participatory budgeting
Guest speaker: Dominik Peters
[ slides | video ]

October 20, 2025: Discussion

October 22, 2025: Sortition
[ slides | video ]

October 27, 2025: The Electoral College
[ slides | video ]

October 29, 2025: Embedded EthiCS
Guest speakers: Matt Kopec and Serena Wang
[ slides | handout ]

November 3, 2025: Apportionment in the 19th century
[ slides | video ]

November 5, 2025: Apportionment in the 20th century
[ slides | video ]

November 10, 2025: Identifying gerrymandered maps
Guest speaker: Moon Duchin
[ slides ]

November 12, 2025:  Fair redistricting
[ slides | video ]

November 17, 2025:  AI-supported deliberation
Guest speakers: Andrew Konya, Colin Megill, Louis Rosenberg
[ slides | video ]

November 19, 2025:  Discussion
[ slides | video ]

November 24, 2025:  Course project presentations
Groups: Athamnah, McKelvery, Amireddy | Ji, Qin, Yang | Blake, Isley, Sadik, Sogaard-Srikrishnan | Baksh, Birhane, Shah

December 1, 2025:  Course project presentations
Groups: Bansal, Verma, Wang | Blair, Rubin-Toles, Si | Baharav, de Raaij, Totsching | Kaminsky, Krishna, Pal-Yadav, Vekassy

December 3, 2025:  Course project presentations
Groups: Attlan, Boulware, Shen, Witzel | Liu, Moody, Wu | Bhattacharya, Li, Nambiar, Paltrowitz | Chooi, Laprevotte, Neoh, Satish