Public Mapping Project - How Public Participation Can Revolutionize Redistricting

Micah Altman¿is¿Director of Research¿at the¿Program on Information Science¿for the MIT Libraries. He has authored more than seventy articles, a half-dozen open-source software packages, and several books and monographs correcting computational errors in the social sciences. Michael P. McDonald is Associate Professor of¿Political Science at the University of Florida¿and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the¿Brookings Institution.¿He is a coprincipal investigator on the¿Public Mapping Project. Widely published in scholarly journals and law reviews, he is coauthor with Micah Altman and Jeff Gill of Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. A History of Public Mapping

3. Planning for Public Mapping

4. DistrictBuilder

5. Public Mapping and Redistricting Reform

Notes

About the Authors

About the author

Michael P. McDonald and Micah Altman

Summary

The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal is an initiative of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Pennsylvania State University. It annually recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world.Micah Altman and Michael P...

Product details

• Authors: Micah Altman, Micah Mcdonald Altman, Michael P McDonald, Michael P. Mcdonald, Michael P. Altman Mcdonald
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781501738548
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-3854-8
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Brown Democracy Medal; Brown Democracy Medal
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education