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Political Geometry: Rethinking Redistricting in the US with Math, Law, and Everything In Between /

Political Geometry: Rethinking Redistricting in the US with Math, Law, and Everything In Between /
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Title Political Geometry ( EBook) : Rethinking Redistricting in the US with Math, Law, and Everything In Between / / edited by Moon Duchin, Olivia Walch.
Added Personal Name Duchin, Moon
Walch, Olivia
Other name(s) SpringerLink (Online service)
Edition statement 1st ed. 2022.
Publication Cham : : Springer International Publishing : : Imprint: Birkhäuser, , 2022.
Physical Details XIV, 463 p. 124 illus., 119 illus. in color. : online resource.
ISBN 9783319691619
Summary Note “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.”.:
Contents note 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.
Mode of acces to digital resource Digital reproduction.-
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Springer International Publishing,
2022. -
Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) or Firefox 2.0 (or higher). Available as searchable text in PDF format.
System details note Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users).
Internet Site https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69161-9
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