Lee Drutman

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Lee Drutman
New America Foundation

Lee Drutman is an American political scientist. He is a senior fellow at the

proportional representation with ranked-choice voting in the U.S. political system, arguing that it would reduce political polarization and minimize the risks of democratic backsliding.[2][3][4][5]

Life

He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from Brown University.[6] He received the 2016 American Political Science Association's Robert A. Dahl Award for "scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy".[6]

He has advanced his arguments in favor of proportional voting in Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America.[4][7][8] In 2021, Washingtonian magazine listed him as one of the most influential people of Washington D.C., citing his advocacy for proportional voting.[9] He is a regular contributor to FiveThirtyEight, where he writes on current affairs.[10] His work appeared in Noema,[11] as well as Foreign Policy.[12]

Bibliography

  • The Business of America Is Lobbying, Oxford University Press, 2015
  • Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America, Oxford University Press, 2020.

References

  1. ^ "Lee Drutman". New America. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  2. ^ Drutman, Lee (April 26, 2017). "This voting reform solves 2 of America's biggest political problems". Vox. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
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  5. ^ Chotiner, Isaac (January 10, 2020). "Can Ranked-Choice Voting Save American Democracy?". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
  6. ^ a b c "Lee Drutman". Lee Drutman. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
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  9. ^ "Meet the Influencers | Washingtonian (DC)". Washingtonian. February 25, 2021. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  10. ^ "Lee Drutman". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  11. ^ Drutman, Lee (June 21, 2022). "A Remedy For Undemocratic Democracy". Noema.
  12. ^ Theil, Lee Drutman, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Yascha Mounk, Eduardo Porter, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Josh Rudolph, Marietje Schaake, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Fareed Zakaria, Shoshana Zuboff, Stefan. "10 Ideas to Fix Democracy". Foreign Policy. Retrieved October 12, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ISSN 0190-8286
    . Retrieved April 4, 2021.