Lee Drutman is a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America. He is also the co-founder of Fix Our House (a campaign for proportional representation in the United States), a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies, and co-host of the podcast “Politics in Question.” Drutman is the author of Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America and The Business of America is Lobbying, winner of the 2016 American Political Science Association’s Robert A. Dahl Award, given for “scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy.” He was named one of Washington’s Most Influential People by Washingtonian magazine in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
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The designers of our democratic republic created a political system and institutions intended to avoid concentrated power, mob rule, and to defuse factions. Is the America we...