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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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.
In 2021, every state will use the results of the 2020 census to redraw the maps of American political power. Some states give independent commissions or nonpartisan officials the power to redraw their ...
To keep extremism at bay, Republicans need to use proportional representation as the method for selecting delegates to their 2024 presidential convention. Current rules have a strong winner-take-all ...
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has said his party would "work with the government" to move away from the current electoral system. The Liberal Democrats have long backed electoral reform and ...