America has two major political parties, but we have far more than two ideologies among our representatives and voters. Both the divide between the two parties and the factions within the parties are ...

Thanks to the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on the legislative filibuster, any notion of Congress making a sustained push for democratic reforms is functionally dead. Voting rights ...

In American politics, the people are supposed to choose their leaders. However, in state after state, it’s increasingly the opposite: politicians choose their voters. The evidence of democratic ...

With an increasingly polarized Congress and fewer competitive elections, there are growing calls among some election reformers to change how voters elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 47, No. 4 (December 2016), pp. 879-903 (25 pages) We introduce incomplete information to a multiparty election under proportional representation: each voter knows her ...

The proposal for a bicameral legislature was premised on the assumption that the lower house, with 300 MPs, would retain the ...