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

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 ...

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 ...

Redrawing districts won’t save us. Proportional representation offers the best solution for an out-of-touch government.

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

Imagine a Congress where politicians of different ideologies work together to pass legislation reflecting what most Americans want. This isn’t hypothetical; it’s how Congress worked for much of the ...

At a hearing last month, at least three Justices of the Supreme Court seemed bent on giving state legislators a new power to blow up state constitutional safeguards of safe elections. This may well ...

Joe Mathews is the Connecting California columnist for Zócalo Public Square and founder-publisher of Democracy Local.

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.

(This column has been updated to correct the one-line bio information on the author.) As a retired lawyer, I share the views of Mark Dorosin and Deidre A. Keller condemning the attack on law schools ...

A petition calling for Proportional Representation to be adopted for Westminster elections has reached 100,000 signatures on the Government petitions website. Thank you & well done all!! Demonstration ...