Elections

The Blame Game

Almost unanimously, Democrats and liberals are pointing the finger at third-party candidate, Ralph Nader. 

  • George Scialabba

Can Social Movements Save Democracy?

Lessons from grassroots organizing.

  • Archon Fung

The Search for New Voting Technology

America’s voting technologies are gravely inefficient, but solutions are less complicated than many politicians have indicated.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
with responses from
  • Lloyd Cutler & Robert Michel
  • Rogers M. Smith
  • Donna Brazile
  • David C. King
  • Daniel R. Ortiz
  • E. Joshua Rosenkranz
  • Robert Richie
  • Mickey Edwards
  • Heather Gerken
  • Marc Strassman
  • Michael Cornfield

The Case for Proportional Representation

The failures of our winner-takes-all system.

  • Robert Richie
  • Steven Hill
with responses from
  • Cynthia McKinney
  • John Ferejohn
  • E. Joshua Rosenkranz
  • Gary W. Cox
  • Daniel Cantor
  • Ross Mirkarimi
  • Anthony Thigpenn
  • Pamela S. Karlan

The Case for Proportional Representation

The failures of our winner-takes-all system.

  • Robert Richie
  • Steven Hill

Going Public

New Directions for Campaign Finance Reform

  • David Donnelly
  • Janice Fine
  • Ellen S. Miller

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Second Proms and Second Primaries

The Limits of Majority Rule

  • Lani Guinier

The Candidate Factory

Producing a better product for a bored America.

  • Todd Gitlin

After the Fall

What both parties have in common.

  • Joshua Cohen
  • Joel Rogers
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