Opportunities for research in mathematics and democracy abound. Students and scholars who are affiliated with the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy are engaged in a number of projects ranging from applications of abstract mathematical methods in voting theory to the history of political quantitative literacy in education.
If you are a student or a researcher who wants to join our team or are looking for project ideas for yourself or your students, please contact us. We have ongoing or planned projects in
- Advanced mathematical methods in voting theory
- Apportionment and power structure analysis
- Geometry of gerrymandering
- New methods in social choice theory
- Mathematics of social media and voter manipulation
- Mathematics of social modeling algorithms
- Analysis of election, census, and other data sets
- Education and political quantitative literacy
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…
Report Published on Utah Ranked Choice Voting Pilot
Dr. Alan Parry and Dr. John Kidd, IMD affiliates and professors in the Department of…
IMD Affiliates Launch New Electoral Reform Organization
IMD affiliates Dr. Wesley H. Holliday (University of California, Berkeley) and Dr. Eric Pacuit (University…
IMD Affiliate Analyzing Geographic Access to Polling
IMD affiliate Dr. Susama Agarwala’s organization Voting Rights Code has had a paper accepted into…
IMD Fellow Leah Valentiner Publishes Paper on the Topology of Simple Games
IMD fellow Leah Valentiner has released a paper using combinatorial topology to study simple games.…
IMD Researchers Begin a Study of Ranked Choice Methods
In December 2024, a team of IMD-affiliated faculty and students started a large empirical study…
