John,
Join us next week on Wednesday, April 14 at 4pm ET for our next webinar, “The Electoral Reform Imperative to Address Our Polarization Crisis.”
FairVote President and CEO Rob
Richie will lead a discussion on how electoral reform can address the
United State’s polarization crisis with Harvard Professor Danielle
Allen and Kevin Kosar of the American Enterprise Institute, plus watch
a pre-recorded discussion with Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute.
The United States has outdated electoral rules that leave Americans unrepresented and have created incentives that are driving and reinforcing our polarization crisis. Most of our world's leading democracies have different electoral rules, and the United States has its own important history of better voting models including ranked choice voting in two states today. By adopting the Fair Representation Act, the U.S could switch to what we call “proportional ranked choice voting,” where the combination of a ranked choice voting ballot with larger fairly drawn districts would transform elections, representation and governance. Join us for a discussion on what is broken in our current system, how reforms like the Fair Representation Act could address those problems, and how best it might be won.
Learn about the panelists:
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Yuval Levin is the
Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy and director of Social,
Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise
Institute, and the editor of National Affairs. He
is a contributing editor to National Review and
his essays and articles have appeared in numerous publications
including The New York
Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street
Journal, Commentary, The Atlantic, and
many others. He is the author, most recently, of A Time to Build: From family and community
to Congress and the campus, how recommitting to our institutions can
revive the American dream.
He has been a member of the White House domestic policy staff (under
President George W. Bush) and a congressional staffer at the member,
committee, and leadership levels. He holds a PhD from the Committee on
Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
- Danielle Allen is a James Bryant Conant
University Professor at Harvard University, and Director of Harvard’s
Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, is a political theorist who has
published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the
history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and
citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, Allen is the
author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in
Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of
Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of
Education (2004), Why Plato Wrote (2010), Our
Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense
of Equality (2014), Education and Equality (2016), and
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. (2017). She is the
co-editor of the award-winning Education, Justice, and
Democracy (2013, with Rob Reich) and From Voice to Influence:
Understanding Citizenship in the Digital Age (2015, with Jennifer
Light). She is a former Chair of the Mellon Foundation Board, past
Chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, and a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
She is a co-chair of a commission convened by the Academy of Arts and
Sciences that last year issued a trailblazing report, Our Common
Purpose, that recommends multi-member districts and ranked choice
voting in congressional elections.
- Kevin R. Kosar is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies the US Congress, election reform, the administrative state, American politics, and the US Postal Service. Before joining AEI, Dr. Kosar was at the R Street Institute, where he served as vice president of policy, vice president of research partnerships, and senior fellow and director of the Governance Project. Earlier, Dr. Kosar spent more than a decade working for the Congressional Research Service, where he focused on a wide range of public administration issues. He has taught public policy at New York University and lectured on public administration at Metropolitan College of New York. His books include Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform” (University of Chicago Press, 2020); “Unleashing Opportunity: Policy Reforms for an Accountable Administrative State” (National Affairs, 2017); “Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education Standards” (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005); and “Bridging the Gap: Higher Education and Career-Centered Welfare Reform” (National Urban League/Metropolitan College of New York, 2003).
We hope you can join us!
Emily Risch
Digital Manager, FairVote
http://www.fairvote.org/
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