TOWARD FAIRER REPRESENTATION IN STATE LEGISLATURES
Can Proportional Representation Create Better Governance?
Proportional electoral systems can reduce political instability. Proportional systems that maintain the number of parties at a moderate level ...
Fair Representation - Fix Democracy First
We advocate using alternative voting methods, in particular Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), previously referred to as “instant runoff voting,” is an electoral ...
Eric Holder: The NDRC's 10 Year Plan
When Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Terry McAuliffe and I came together to launch the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) as the ...
Doing Our Politics in Court: Gerrymandering, "Fair Representation ...
States Supreme Court has not only entered the 'political thicket,' but with remarkable speed has found conflicts of democratic politics coming to dominate its ...
Women in Parliaments: Descriptive and Substantive Representation
This essay reviews two research programs. The first focuses on variations in the number of women elected to national parliaments in the ...
Drawing the Line: How Gerrymandering Determines Whose Votes ...
In a number of states, map drawers carefully select district lines to reduce the voting power of one political party (partisan gerrymandering) ...
Should State Legislatures Be Responsible for Drawing Political ...
Recently, the Supreme Court has taken up a case involving gerrymandering. Due to the continued controversy over how district lines are drawn, ...
The Law of Legislative Representation - Virginia Law Review
Most obviously, the law of democracy—the law regulating elections, redistricting, and money in politics—shapes the incentives that legislators ...
States should reform election administration to ensure ample and robust voting opportunities for all eligible voters and promote public confidence in the ...
How Can We Combat Gerrymandering? | Campaign Legal Center
Below we will focus on three solutions to gerrymandering: using web tools to identify gerrymandered maps, establishing independent redistricting commissions ( ...
Fair Representation Act reintroduced in Congress - FairVote Action
This morning, the Fair Representation Act was reintroduced in Congress by Reps. Don Beyer (VA-8) and Jamie Raskin (MD-8)
Don't Believe the Lies. Issue 1 Empowers Black Voters, Opens ...
Terrence Upchurch (D-Cleveland), president of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus (OLBC), fellow OLBC members Sen. Catherine D. Ingram (D- ...
Harris on Voting Rights | American Civil Liberties Union
If elected president, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris will likely build on her past record and campaign promises to champion measures that would increase ...
Why state legislatures are still very white — and very male - Politico
Most state legislatures are lacking in diversity, with nearly every state failing to achieve racial and gender parity with their own population data.
A wave of cities across the United States switch to fair voting systems
But, things are starting to improve in the USA. American cities adopt the Alternative Vote. Unencumbered by the politics of the 2010 coalition, ...
We Need To Change the Way We Elect Members of Congress
The solution to our current crisis of democracy: proportional representation and a multiparty system. It's proven to ensure that all votes ...
8 Ways To Protect American Democracy
The 2024 presidential election cycle is quickly approaching, with voters casting the first ballots of the election season in February. Election ...
Equal Pay Act of 1963 - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort and ...
TOWARD A MORE PERFECT CONSTITUTION - Sabato's Crystal Ball
Finally, a couple of additional constitutional amendments can make Congress more responsible in fiscal matters (via a balanced budget mandate) ...
The most basic form of political accountability, and therefore democratic con- sent, is achieved through periodic elections in which voters may accept or reject.