APSA and Protect Democracy have partnered to support the APSA Presidential Task Force on Political Parties in summarizing the existing political science research on responsible political parties.
October 5, 2023
The Office of Personnel Management recently announced a proposed rule to reinforce protections for federal civil servants against Schedule F.
September 28, 2023
This brief aims to better equip business leaders to identify when actual or threatened government action in response to corporate expression crosses the line.
September 15, 2023
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
Proportional electoral systems largely eliminate both the built-in bias inherent to the single-seat model and the effects of partisan manipulation.
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
With better representation and more equal weight given to citizens’ votes in elections, the zero-sum nature of politics could begin to change.
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