Bergische Universität Wuppertal Fachbereich Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Angewandte Mathematik - Numerische Analysis (AMNA)

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Matthias Ehrhardt

Die (politische) Macht der Mathematik - Wie man Wahlkreise optimiert

Mathematische Modellierung in der Politik

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Referenzen für den Vortrag

1. A.J. McGann C.A. Smith, Gerrymandering in America: The House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Popular Sovereignty, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
2. N.O. Stephanopoulost, E.M. McGheeft, Partisan Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap, University of Chicago Law Review.
3. W.K. Tam Cho, Y.Y. Liu, Toward a Talismanic Redistricting Tool: A Computational Method for Identifying Extreme Redistricting Plans, Election Law Journal 15(4) (2016), 351-366.
4. B.E. Cain, W.K. Tam Cho, Y.Y. Liu, E. Zhang. A Reasonable Bias Approach to Gerrymandering: Using Automated Plan Generation to Evaluate Redistricting Proposals, William & Mary Law Review 59 (2017).
5. W.K. Tam Cho, Measuring Partisan Fairness: How well does the Efficiency Gap Guard Against Sophisticated as well as Simple-Minded Modes of Partisan Discrimination?, University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 166 (July 2017).
6. B. Bishop, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
7. B.E. Cain, E. Bruce, Redistricting Commissions: A Better Political Buffer? Yale Law Journal 121(7) (2012), 1808-1844.
8. J. Chen, J. Rodden, Cutting through the Thicket: Redistricting Simulations and the Detection of Partisan Gerrymanders, Election Law Journal 14(4) (2015), 331-345.
9. R.S. Garfinkel, G.L. Nemhauser, Optimal Political Districting by Implicit Enumeration Techniques. Management Science 16(8) (1970) B-495-B-508.
10. Y.Y. Liu, W.K. Tam Cho, S. Wang, PEAR: a massively parallel evolutionary computation approach for political redistricting optimization and analysis, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation 30 (2016) 78-92

Links zum Vortrag

• Gerrymandering Is Illegal, but Only Mathematicians Can Prove It (WIRED)
• 2016 Common Cause "Gerrymander Standard" Writing Competition
• The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes (QuantaMagazine)
• The Junk Science at the Heart of the Gerrymandering Case (the weekly standard)
• Gaps, Guardrails And The Fast-Advancing Math Of Partisan Gerrymandering (WisCommunity)
• Countermanding Gerrymandering (AMS)