Political geometry : rethinking redistricting in the US with math, law, and everything in between / Moon Duchin, Olivia Walch, editors.
Duchin, Moon, editor.; Walch, Olivia, editor.
2022
KF4905
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Title Political geometry : rethinking redistricting in the US with math, law, and everything in between / Moon Duchin, Olivia Walch, editors.
ISBN 9783319691619 (electronic bk.)
3319691619 (electronic bk.)
9783319691602 (print)
3319691600 (print)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69161-9
Published Cham, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xli, 436 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-69161-9 doi
Call Number KF4905
Dewey Decimal Classification 342.73/07
Summary "Why does my congressional district look like a salamander?" Politically engaged citizens have been asking this question for far too long. This volume collects perspectives from a wide cross-section of disciplines to explain what drives gerrymandering, why it can be hard to stamp out, and how we might go about fixing it. With topics ranging from the Voting Rights Act to Markov chains to the geography of communities, this book serves as a 21st century toolkit for how we can better approach this corrosive phenomenon. The volume editors gather experts from a variety of fields to provide as many different perspectives on gerrymandering as possible. Thanks to the breadth of expertise found across these chapters, ranging from lawyers to mathematicians to civil rights activists, readers will discover new ways of thinking about redistricting in the United States. Illustrations and helpful walkthroughs appear throughout to clearly explain otherwise complex ideas from these areas. Political Geometry is a must-have for anybody interested in political representation in the United States elections, and for anyone who's ever thought, "There must be a better way to do this".
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Walch, Olivia, editor.
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Duchin, M., Introduction. Duchin, M., Walch, O., Explainer: Compactness by the Numbers
Part I: Political Thought
Bernstein, M., Walch, O., Measuring Partisan Fairness
Duchin, M., Walch, O., Concepts of Representation
Gaddie, K., Redistricting: Math, Systems, or People?
Rodden, J., Weighill, T., Political Geography and Representation
Part II: Law
Gordon, A., Duchin, M., Walch, O., Explainer: A Brief Introduction to the VRA
Katz., E., Race and Redistricting
Steingart, A., Law, Computing, and Redistricting in the 1960s
Charles, G.-U., Spencer, D., The Law of Gerrymandering
Part III: Geography
Fowler, C., Race, Space, and the Geography of Representation
Nelson, G., The Elusive Geography of Communities
Rosenfeld, H., Duchin, M., Walch, O., Explainer: Communities of Interest
Hachadoorian, L., Buck, R., Geography as Data
Rosenfeld, H., Duchin, M., Walch, O., A Census Case Study: Philadelphia's Seventh Ward
Part IV: Math and Computer Science
Guth, L., Nieh, A., Weighill, T., Three Applications of Entropy
Duchin, M., Murphy, J., Explainer: Measuring Clustering and Segregation
Becker, A., Solomon, J., Redistricting Algorithms
Deford, D., Duchin, M., Random Walks
Gall, M., Mac Donald, K., McBride, F., Making Maps
Duchin, M., Walch, O., Drawing for the Courts
Weighill, T. Duchin, M., Walch, O., Explainer: Ranked Choice Voting
Espinoza-Madrigal, I., Sellstrom, O., Case Study: Lowell, MA
Clarke, K., Gordon, A., The State of Play in Voting Rights.

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