...and how we can fix it!
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** How America's Electoral System Benefits Authoritarianism
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...and How We Can Fix It
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Wednesday, Feb 2, 2022, 12:00PM ET / 9:00AM PT
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Join Protect Democracy, Unite America, and R Street on Wednesday, February 2 at 12:00pm ET/ 9:00am PT for a discussion on how features of the U.S. electoral system are exacerbating America’s authoritarian threat. While those concerned about U.S. democracy justifiably focus on the current far-right campaigns to curtail voting rights nationwide and interfere with election administration, the roots of antidemocratic extremism run much deeper. A new report ([link removed]) by Protect Democracy argues that, unlike most other major democracies, the U.S. electoral system—single-member plurality—is structurally and uniquely advantaging authoritarianism: diluting minority voting power, weakening competition between the major parties, preventing an electorally viable new center-right party, and rewarding extreme factions at the ballot box.
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This briefing will address the following questions:
* How is America’s electoral system anomalous?
* What challenges does this system present to democratic resilience?
* How can we structurally reverse the authoritarian tide?
At a time when it’s easy to feel bleak about the state of our democracy, our panelists will explain why they’re still hopeful.
** Speakers
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** Didi Kuo
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** Associate Director for Research and Senior Research Scholar
CDDRL, Stanford University
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** Lee Drutman
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** Senior Fellow, Political Reform Program
New America
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** Nick Troiano
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** Executive Director
Unite America
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** Matt Germer
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** Resident Elections Fellow, Governance Program
R Street
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** Related Report
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In Advantaging Authoritarianism: The U.S. Electoral System & Antidemocratic Extremism ([link removed]) , Protect Democracy examines the links between escalating antidemocratic extremism and the U.S. electoral system: “one uniquely translating limited factional support into outsized political influence.”
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