Lee Drutman

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 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]

Lee Drutman
Academic background
Education
Academic work
InstitutionsNew America Foundation

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] and Foreign Policy.[12]

Bibliography
  • The Business of America Is Lobbying, Oxford University Press, 2015 ISBN 9780190677435.[6][13]
  • Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America, Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 9780190913854

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.
  3. Tharoor, Ishaan. "Analysis | A foreign solution to America's political dysfunction". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  4. 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.
  5. Chotiner, Isaac (January 10, 2020). "Can Ranked-Choice Voting Save American Democracy?". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
  6. "Lee Drutman". Lee Drutman. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  7. Santucci, Jack (October 1, 2020). "Multiparty America?". The Journal of Politics. 82 (4): e34–e39. doi:10.1086/708937. ISSN 0022-3816. S2CID 222428257.
  8. 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.
  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". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  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. Drutman, Lee. "What we get wrong about lobbying and corruption". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
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