Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

Lee Drutman, Rachel Donald, Resilience
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Political polarization, particularly in the United States, is being inflamed by structural forces, including the dominance of two parties, the nationalization of politics, winner-take-all representation, and the geography of political homogeneity – where encountering people with different political views is increasingly rare. But there are proven solutions to these structural drivers of polarization.

In this conversation, journalist and podcaster Rachel Donald speaks with Lee Drutman, senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America, on reforms like proportional representation and multi-member districts, and why we should view democracy more like a living, evolving ecosystem than a problem to fix.

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Featured Image: Framestock, c/o Adobe Stock

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Lee Drutman

Lee Drutman

Lee Drutman is a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America. He is the author of Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America (Oxford University Press, 2020) and The Business of America is Lobbying (Oxford University Press, 2015), winner of the 2016 American Political Science Association’s Robert A. Dahl Award, given for “scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy.” He is also a co-founder of Fix Our House (a campaign for proportional representation in the United States), a co-founder of the Center for Ballot Freedom, and a lecturer at The Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies.

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