Lee Drutman, author of Ending the Two-Party Doom Loop, recently joined Ezra Klein for an interesting podcast conversation. Drutman is a longtime advocate for proportional… Read More »Flaws of proportional representation – and what to use instead
Episode 3 of the Forward Party Podcast includes veteran political journalist Chris Cillizza. Cillizza covered why there is such an appetite for independent political movements at… Read More »Chris Cillizza: more political competition is good for the average person
Frustration with political polarization and gridlock seems to be in the air, as several recent podcast episodes have discussed this problem and ways forward. This… Read More »Review of recent podcast episodes
Congressmen Don Beyer (VA) and Jamie Raskin (MD) and Senator Peter Welch (VT) have recently introduced a Ranked Choice Voting Act to bring ranked voting… Read More »A Better Ranked Choice Voting Act
Dr. Emily Campbell has published an analysis of Alaska’s implementation of ranked choice voting in the 2022 House Special Election. That article, published in the… Read More »Mitigating backlash to election reform
Many people have figured out that the plurality or “first-past-the-post” voting system used in much of the U.S. causes political dysfunction and polarization. It limits… Read More »BTR-IRV: A voting system everyone can live with
The post investigates three questions: What is precinct summability? Is it important? And how much should one worry about it being a property of a… Read More »On Precinct Summability
No voting system is perfect. Each makes different tradeoffs between various properties. Given the wide range of possible voting systems, it can be fruitful to… Read More »Dasgupta and Maskin on “Elections and Strategic Voting”
Are you tired of negative political attacks flooding the airwaves every election season? Are you fed up with political polarization and gridlock in Washington? Do… Read More »Movie review: Majority Rules (2024)
No electoral voting method is perfect. The various methods of casting and counting ballots make different tradeoffs in terms of the simplicity or complexity of… Read More »Voting methods and the center squeeze in the Alaska 2022 special election