Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is growing support for electoral reform in the U.S. PeterSnow/Getty Images In the face of widespread pessimism about the ...

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 ...

In the face of widespread pessimism about the political fate of the United States and growing political polarization, scholars and citizens across the country are reimagining how American democracy ...

Different versions of proportional list systems exist. In one version called open list proportional representation, voters choose a candidate from party lists of nominated candidates or from lists of ...

Jennifer Lynn McCoy receives funding from the Carnegie Corporation for an Andrew Carnegie fellowship on depolarization as well as the Institute for Humane Studies.. She is Regent's Professor of ...