Skip to content

Tag: descriptive representation

Descriptive racial representation and anti-gerrymandering at once

This post follows up on my earlier advice to consider minority-party representation (MPR) as an anti-gerrymandering measure. Its basics are described here and reproduced at the bottom of the post.

This week’s news has been about the potential for new Republican district maps to reduce the number of Black members of the U.S. House of Representatives. MPR can be designed to address that problem too.

Read more…

“Bending the arc”

I am happy to share footage from a recent APSA short course on multiracial, multiparty democracy in the U.S.

My presentation covers findings from my forthcoming book, More Parties or No Parties: The Politics of Electoral Reform in America.

The panel was recorded on September 27, 2021. Participants included Mike Latner (chair), Heather Stoll, Lee Drutman, and Pedro Hernandez.