IMD Affiliate and High School Researchers Studying Bloc Voting

Last summer, as part of IMD’s high school summer research program, Dr. Jennifer Wilson (The New School) began working with a group of students to study the properties of Bloc voting using a 1-d spatial model for voter preferences. Throughout the year, she and two of the group members, Alice Park and Serena Pallan, have continued the project alongside graduate research assistant Ariel Calver.

Dr. Wilson plans to involve her new high school summer research team in the project this year, looking at multi-winner voting methods from both theoretical and quantitative perspectives. We are excited to see how their work evolves this summer!