American political scientist
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]
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] as well as Foreign Policy .[12]
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
^ "Lee Drutman" . New America . Retrieved October 12, 2022 .
^ Drutman, Lee (April 26, 2017). "This voting reform solves 2 of America's biggest political problems" . Vox . Retrieved April 4, 2021 .
^ Tharoor, Ishaan. "Analysis | A foreign solution to America's political dysfunction" . Washington Post . ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved April 4, 2021 .
^ a b 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 .
^ Chotiner, Isaac (January 10, 2020). "Can Ranked-Choice Voting Save American Democracy?" . The New Yorker . Retrieved April 9, 2021 .
^ a b c "Lee Drutman" . Lee Drutman . Retrieved April 4, 2021 .
^ Santucci, Jack (October 1, 2020). "Multiparty America?" . The Journal of Politics . 82 (4): e34–e39. doi :10.1086/708937 . ISSN 0022-3816 . S2CID 222428257 .
^ 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 .
^ "Meet the Influencers | Washingtonian (DC)" . Washingtonian . February 25, 2021. Retrieved April 4, 2021 .
^ "Lee Drutman" . FiveThirtyEight . Retrieved October 13, 2021 .
^ Drutman, Lee (June 21, 2022). "A Remedy For Undemocratic Democracy" . Noema .
^ 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 ))
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^ Drutman, Lee. "What we get wrong about lobbying and corruption" . Washington Post . ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved April 4, 2021 .
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