Principles for Transparency and Public Participation in Redistricting
By Micah Altman, Thomas E. Mann, Michael P. McDonald, Norman J.OrnsteinScholars from the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute are collaborating to promote transparency in...
View ArticlePulling Back the Curtain on Redistricting
By Micah Altman, Michael P. McDonaldEvery 10 years — unfortunately, sometimes more frequently — legislative district lines are redrawn to balance population for demographic changes revealed by the...
View ArticleToward Public Participation in Redistricting
The drawing of legislative district boundaries is among the most self-interested and least transparent systems in American democratic governance. All too often, formal redistricting authorities...
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Using Crowd-Sourced Mapping to Improve Representation and Detect Gerrymanders...
By Micah Altman, Michael P. McDonaldAnalysis of dozens of publicly created redistricting plans shows that map-making technology can improve political representation and detect a gerrymander. In 2012,...
View ArticleControlling Cambridge Analytica: Managing the new risks of personal data...
By Micah Altman, Alexandra WoodRevelations continue to surface about how broadly companies share personal data. This week, The New York Times reports how Facebook shared vast amounts of its user’s...
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