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
In just the first two weeks, the second Trump administration has implemented drastic and far-reaching changes in the US. The Trump Administration has justified their… Read More »What Decisive Mandate?
In April 2024, Andrew Yang gave a TED Talk entitled “Why US politics is broken — and how to fix it” in which he diagnoses… Read More »Two Major Parties are not on Team “overhaul the incentives”
Canadian activist Paige Saunders has a new video about Ranked Choice Voting entitled How the Two Parties Crush Competition (31 min). The video is a… Read More »Paige Saunders: How The Two Parties Crush Competition
The Editorial Board of The Washington Post has endorsed ranked-choice voting in a column asking voters to “Put ranked-choice voting at the top of your… Read More »The Washington Post endorses ranked-choice voting!
The Problem This past week, the debate between President Biden and Former President Trump showed clearly that neither of the top two contenders for the… Read More »Ever want more than two choices?
This past week, Arlington County in Virginia held a primary election for County Board using ranked choice voting. As a current resident, that meant I… Read More »I voted with ranked choice voting this week!
Politicians don’t care what you think If you ever feel that your policy preferences are ignored by your representatives, well, it isn’t just you. The… Read More »Politicians don’t care what you think. Political competition can help.
In 2010, Besley, Persson, and Sturm published a paper entitled Political Competition, Policy and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the US in the Review of… Read More »Political competition would make us wealthier
In a recent podcast interview with Ruy Teixeira, Ezra Klein stated that “American politics is — I don’t want to say a perfectly competitive market,… Read More »Ezra Klein says US politics is highly competitive. This thinking prevents real solutions.