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Lee Drutman
Drutman in 2018
EducationBrown University (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD)

Lee Drutman is an American political scientist. He is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.[1] He is known as an advocate for proportional representation, particularly open-list, and fusion voting.

Career

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He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from Brown University.[2] He received the 2016 American Political Science Association's Robert A. Dahl Award for "scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy".[2]

Advocacy

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He has advanced his arguments in favor of proportional voting in Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America.[3][4][5] In 2021, Washingtonian magazine listed him as one of the most influential people of Washington D.C., citing his advocacy for proportional voting.[6] He was a regular contributor to FiveThirtyEight, where he wrote on current affairs.[7] His work appeared in Noema,[8] as well as Foreign Policy.[9]

Initially, Drutman advocated for proportional representation (PR) with ranked-choice voting (single transferable vote) in the U.S. political system, arguing that it would reduce political polarization and minimize the risks of democratic backsliding.[10][11][3][12][13] Since 2023, Drutman has argued the United States should use an open-list PR system for multi-seat races (Congress, legislatures, etc.) and fusion voting for inherently single-winner races (the presidency, governors, etc.) instead of ranked-choice voting. Despite opposing the primary system, Drutman says that ranked-choice-voting is useful in large candidate fields.[14][15][16]

Bibliography

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  • The Business of America Is Lobbying, Oxford University Press, 2015 ISBN 9780190677435.[2][17]
  • Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America, Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 9780190913854

References

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  1. ↑ "Lee Drutman". New America. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "Lee Drutman". Lee Drutman. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  3. 1 2 Masket, Seth (2020). "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America. By Lee Drutman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 368p. $27.95 cloth". Perspectives on Politics. 18 (4): 1220–1221. doi:10.1017/S1537592720002662. ISSN 1537-5927. S2CID 230639489.
  4. ↑ Santucci, Jack (October 1, 2020). "Multiparty America?". The Journal of Politics. 82 (4): e34–e39. doi:10.1086/708937. ISSN 0022-3816. S2CID 222428257.
  5. ↑ Fiorina, Morris (September 28, 2021). "How to Cure the Ills of Contemporary American Democracy? A Review Essay". Political Science Quarterly. 136 (4): 741–750. doi:10.1002/polq.13245. ISSN 0032-3195. S2CID 244267442.
  6. ↑ "Meet the Influencers | Washingtonian (DC)". Washingtonian. February 25, 2021. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Lee Drutman". FiveThirtyEight. Archived from the original on September 25, 2019. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  8. ↑ Drutman, Lee (June 21, 2022). "A Remedy For Undemocratic Democracy". Noema.
  9. ↑ 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)
  10. ↑ Drutman, Lee (April 26, 2017). "This voting reform solves 2 of America's biggest political problems". Vox. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  11. ↑ Tharoor, Ishaan. "Analysis | A foreign solution to America's political dysfunction". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  12. ↑ Chotiner, Isaac (January 10, 2020). "Can Ranked-Choice Voting Save American Democracy?". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
  13. ↑ "Breaking down America's two-party system". CBS News. 2024.
  14. ↑ Huq, Lee Drutman, Aziz (January 21, 2023). "This one reform could fix our broken elections". Dallas News. Retrieved June 27, 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ Drutman, Lee (September 18, 2023). "How I updated my views on ranked choice voting". Undercurrent Events. Retrieved June 27, 2026.
  16. ↑ Mainwaring, Scott; Drutman, Lee. "The Case for Multiparty Presidentialism in the US" (PDF).
  17. ↑ Drutman, Lee. "What we get wrong about lobbying and corruption". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
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