Why do we have state senates? How can 49 percent of the electorate support a candidate for office, yet get no representation? And why doesn’t everybody vote?
In today’s installment of the Prospect’s big ideas series, Prospects 2032, Harold Meyerson, Miles Rapoport and E.J. Dionne look closer at these issues of democracy and voting, and imagine a different world.
Meyerson argues for unicameral legislatures at the state level (like we have in Nebraska), and proportional representation to ensure that elected bodies resemble their electorates. Rapoport and Dionne make the case for universal voting, to achieve close to 100 percent democracy that reflects the popular will.
Together, this would be a powerful transformation of how our governments and elections work, and who policy serves.
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