This paper by Anne Meeker and Lee Drutman explains how congressional casework operates today, and how it might operate in a future House of Representatives elected by proportional representation.
April 2, 2025
Americans want more parties, but we only get two. Our paper details how to give Americans more choices at the polls.
March 18, 2025
How expansion of the House of Representatives could work — and why it would benefit democracy
January 24, 2025
Across the world, proportional representation tends to increase voter turnout compared to winner-take-all.
December 3, 2024
On Tuesday, 175 political scientists, historians, and legal scholars released a letter to members of the U.S. House in support of the Resolution Establishing the Select Committee on Electoral Reform.
November 21, 2024
Proportionally elected legislatures could yield more competitive, representative, accountable, and authoritarian-resistant state politics.
August 15, 2024
Authoritarianism is a method of rule that suppresses political freedoms and civil rights, using various levers of control to shift power from the people to the hands of one ruler or set of rulers.
August 12, 2024
Under proportional representation, minority-preferred candidates tend to win even more seats than under single-member districts.
August 12, 2024
In Kansas and other states, Protect Democracy is representing voters rejecting hyper-partisan polarization and extremism by seeking to revive fusion voting.
July 22, 2024
Policy outcomes, accountability, and stability under different electoral systems.
May 2, 2024