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Track: Federal Systems
Martin Marazzi
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Julian Alvarez
1923 Piso 1
Buenos Aires, 1425
ARGENTINA
Telephone: +54.1.326.0099 or 87
Fax: +54.1.326.0099 or 8797
E-mail: mmaraz@meyosp.mecon.ar
Marcelo Escolar, Rosalia Akaprahamyan
GIS, Politics, and Politicians
Defining Issue: The City of Buenos Aires in Argentina recently changed its political status. It jumped from being an area depending directly on the President to a sort of new state with its own representatives. A new constitution has been approved during the present year (1996), but there are still some rules that need to be defined. One of the rules that keep the politicians awake is the voting system to be applied, which includes not only the system itself (proportional method, D'hont method, etc.) but also the way in which the City has to be divided, because those are the variables that affect the final electoral picture. GIS Solution: The user (politician) will be able to calculate the potential distribution of the Parliament places, assuming the same results of past elections, taking into account the method as well as the design of the new political unit areas. Methodology: The user will be able to define the new units by adding the smallest electoral areas defined in past elections; those
data will be processed by a program that models the different electoral systems, getting as an output the number of representatives for each political party and for each area. The purpose of the system is to help politicians to understand past elections, define strategies, and to analyze the strategies of the opponent political parties. Software: The application was written using ArcView Version 2.1, Avenue, Visual Basic and Excel.
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