The Public Mapping Project: How Public Participation Can Revolutionize Redistricting

Brown Democracy Medal

by Michael P. McDonald, Micah Altman

The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal is an initiative of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Pennsylvania State University. It annually recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world.

Micah Altman and Michael P. McDonald unveil the Public Mapping Project, which developed DistrictBuilder, an open-source software redistricting application designed to give the public transparent, accessible, and easy-to-use online mapping tools. As they show, the goal is for all citizens to have access to the same information that legislators use when drawing congressional maps—and use that data to create maps of their own.

120 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2018

About the author

Michael Patrick McDonald
Catholic Univ. of America, BA/PhD
Geo Washington Univ. JD
Roman Catholic
Republican
Son of Paul Leo McDonald & Dolores Josephine Paganucci.
Naval Research Lab 1974-78
Drug Enforcement Adm. 1980-81
NEH General Counsel, 2003-present
NEH Acting Deputy Chair, 2009
Founder/Pres, Center for Indiv Rights
(www.cir-usa.org) where he employed Ann
H. Coulter
Washington Legal Foundation 1981-88
(www.wlf.org/)
Federalist Society (www.fed-soc.org/)
Shimer College Trustee 2009-present
Literary Counsel, The American Interest
(www.the-american-interest.com)
Published by The Wall St Journal, The
American Interest, National Review
Online, Academic Questions, The
Heritage Foundation, The Wilson
Quarterly, Legal Times, The Weekly
Standard, The American Scholar, The
National Interest, The Federalist
Society & the TLS.