Gerrymandering - kostenloses Unterrichtsmaterial, Arbeitsblätter und Übungen

Gerrymandering - kostenloses Unterrichtsmaterial, Arbeitsblätter und Übungen

Gerrymandering: One Person, One Vote?
Students will understand the reasons for and process of redistricting after a census, assess the motivations for and electoral consequences of gerrymandering, identify and analyze the techniques political cartoonists use to express opinions and encourage critical thinking about contemporary issues (USA: Brown University 2018)
Gerrymandering
Students read about the illegal practice of manipulating the boundaries of legislative districts for political gain. They then create their own gerrymandered districts in a drag and drop exercise. (USA: Wisc-Online 2018)
Wahlkreise: Gerrymandering
Wenn es um die Wahl für den US-Kongress geht, dann wird tief in die politische Trickkiste gegriffen. Ein Schreckgespenst dieser Wahlen ist das gerrymandering (11 Minuten / Amerika Lexikon 2021).
How Politicians Can Use Big Data to Win Elections
In the video, The Atlantic writer Vann R. Newkirk II explains how big data can help win elections — and why Pennsylvania and Maryland have already faced lawsuits over gerrymandering technology (USA 2017).
Independentvoting.org
Groups like Independentvoting.org, which has grass-roots organizations in 40 states, are mobilizing against the de facto disenfranchisement of independent voters (who now outnumber both Democrats and Republicans) through the gerrymandering of nearly 90 percent of the nation’s congressional districts into one-party monopolies (USA 2016).