News & Opinion
Fulcrum: Why Ranked Choice Voting beats Approval Voting
Lee Drutman in The Fulcrum. Drutman is a senior fellow at the think tank New America and author of the forthcoming "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America." Electoral reform is hot these days. Ranked-choice voting is getting...
Escaping the Partisan Death Spiral
Lee Drutman in a Cato Institute Policy Report. As we lurch toward another national election, steel yourself for the familiar ride: incendiary threat rhetoric about the end of America as we know it; cramped debates where nobody proposes anything new and nobody changes...
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Introduce Ranked Choice Voting in Presidential, Congressional, and State Elections
AAAS: Introduce Ranked Choice Voting Most election outcomes in the United States are determined by winner-take-all electoral systems. The candidate who receives the plurality of votes—that is, more than any other candidate, though not necessarily a majority—wins the...
Blog: Solidarity to bring healing and change
Jeanne Massey: As I write this today, my heart is broken – for my city, for George Floyd and his family, and for our black and brown citizens who are disproportionately impacted by police violence. Seeing Mr. Floyd pinned to the ground pleading for his life is...
New York Times: The primaries are just dumb, there is a better way to do democracy
By the New York Times Editorial Board How fitting that Twitter — a social media platform apparently built for bickering — co-sponsored a political debate on Tuesday night that often descended into an unintelligible screaming match among too many candidates whose...