2023 Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Moon Duchin
Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University and founder of the MGGG Redistricting Lab
“Majority Rules?: Thinking About Representation”
Monday, May 8, 2023
Representative democracy means that we designate people to govern for us; but what kind of reflection do we seek? From Untouchables in India to Hungarian speakers in Slovenia to Maori electorates in New Zealand to regional apportionment schemes and gender quotas around the world, democracies have developed many mechanisms for adjusting representation to be more representative. In this talk I will look at elections as systems and ask about the alignment of our mechanisms with our ideals.
Moon Duchin (PhD, Mathematics, 2005) is a Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University and was one of the faculty founders of the interdisciplinary Science, Technology, and Society Program. She runs the MGGG Redistricting Lab as one of the research groups at Tisch College of Civic Life.
