Math 217 Voting Theory - Spring 2010

• Course policies
• Tentative course syllabus
  
  
• Readings available at onCourse
  
  
• Web resources for computing voting power indices
  • Computer Algorithms for Voting Power Analysis at the University of Warwick
  • Voting Power and Power Index Website at the University of Turku
    
    
• A few links on redistricting
• Redistricting the Nation
• Americans for Redistricting Reform
• The Redistricting Game
  
  
• Some files for multi-candidate elections
• A page of triangles and tetrahedra for your computing pleasure
• A Maple worksheet to draw the proceure line in the representation simplex
  (Note: After you right-click and save the worksheet on your computer, you may need to change the extension to ".mw" for Maple to open the file.)
• The fundamental decomposition of R⁶
  
  
• Files displayed during class
• January 27 overview of semester
• February 17 spreadsheet
• February 22 overview of apportionment methods
• February 22 spreadsheet
• February 24spreadsheet
• March 1 spreadsheet
• March 3 apportionment recap
• March 24 proportional representation in South Africa
• March 24 election results from 2004 in South Africa
• March 29 spreadsheet on Fair Majority Voting
• March 31 in-class work
• April 5 in-class work
• April 21 elections with with n>3 candidates
• April 21 Maple worksheet demonstrating the weighted outcomes for the 1860 US Presidential election
• April 26 examples of Dodgson's method