Proportional representation opens the door to more choice because it becomes possible for a smaller party to win one seat out of five, for example. It would begin to break up the two-party system that ...

Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), in collaboration with international experts, have published a scientific study on how to ensure that the selection of committees and expert ...

As states from Texas to California to Florida debate and vote on new electoral maps, Americans are both learning about — and often disgusted by — the scale of gerrymandering in their states. The ...

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 ...

It’s not enough to draw “neutral” districts. We need to overhaul the entire voting system. Activists gather in front of the Supreme Court of the United States during the re-argument of Louisiana v.

Multiwinner voting systems are electoral mechanisms designed to select a fixed-size committee or representative body from a pool of candidates, based on collective preferences. Central to these ...

Reimagining a political system’s future effectively begins with the system’s foundation: how the populace chooses the people who will represent them and make collective decisions. The U.S.

In the face of widespread pessimism about the political fate of the United States and growing political polarization, scholars and citizens across the country are reimagining how American democracy ...