Topics and timeline (tentative)
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(t.b. updated)
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Th Oct 1
Purpose and limits of democratic decision-making
- T Oct 6 Election administration
- Th Oct 8
Social Choice: Introduction
- T Oct 13
Voting systems examples (majority rule, ranking, approval voting, voting by veto, majority judgement)
- Th Oct 15
Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
- T Oct 20
Relaxations of Impossibility Theorem / Other contexts for voting
- Th Oct 22
Majority judgement
- T Oct 27
Sample surveys and polling
- Th Oct 29
Limitations of survey sampling
- T Nov 3
Forecasting election results
- Th Nov 5
2022 US Election debrief
- T Nov 10
Voting rights
- Th Nov 12
Misinformatin and elections
- T Nov 17
Redistricting and gerrymandering
- Th Nov 19
Redistricting and gerrymandering
- T Nov 24
End-to-end auditable elections: cryptographic view of voting
- Th Nov 26
No class – Thanksgiving
- T Dec 1
Judgement aggregation
- Th Dec 3
Probabilistic pooling
- T Dec 8
Case studies
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