Thanks to the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on the legislative filibuster, any notion of Congress making a sustained push for democratic reforms is functionally dead. Voting rights ...

Democracies that use proportional systems consistently show higher turnout, more accurate representation, more competitive ...

Cerin Lindgrensavage is a counsel at Protect Democracy, where she leads the team advocating for proportional electoral reforms at the state level. The high stakes U.S. election this week is on track ...

As states from Texas to California debate and vote on new electoral maps, Americans are both learning about – and often ...

Ramin Skibba is an astrophysicist turned science writer based in San Diego, California. The US election being held in November is only the latest in a pivotal year of elections. By the end of 2024, as ...

America has two major political parties, but we have far more than two ideologies among our representatives and voters. Both the divide between the two parties and the factions within the parties are ...

With an increasingly polarized Congress and fewer competitive elections, there are growing calls among some election reformers to change how voters elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Would proportional representation be a better way of electing legislatures? This old idea, which dates back to John Stuart Mill and Nicolas de Condorcet, has been gaining ground among political ...

Democracy, in the immortal words of President Abraham Lincoln, is a government of the people, by the people, for the people. This pithy description makes democracy a sacrosanct concept that endures ...

In the 1920s and early ’30s, a movement experiment with PR grew in New York. When proportional representation was adopted in ...