Media Guides: Covering Political Violence

Covering political violence and violent extremism can be a fraught endeavor for the media. Guidance for political violence reporting.

June 18, 2024

In terms of PR, what matters is that majority coalitions can hold themselves together — be they single-party or alliances of parties.

September 13, 2023

The experiences of New Zealand, Italy, and Japan provide a template, and show how reforming electoral systems can be a powerful way to address problems of parties, legitimacy, and democracy.

September 12, 2023

A myth haunts conversations about proportional representation in America. It is the belief that proportional representation requires a parliamentary system. We’re here to kill this myth.

September 12, 2023

Under PR, a party’s share of members in a legislature would roughly match its share of the vote in the last election, even for parties that only get 10 or 20 percent of the vote.

September 12, 2023

From the vantage point of the polity overall, the emergence of a moderate, center-right party would produce much of the upside that PR advocates anticipate.

September 12, 2023