.jpg)
Lee Drutman
American political scientist
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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, particularly open-list, and fusion voting.
.jpg)
Lee Drutman | |
|---|---|
Drutman in 2018 | |
| Education | Brown University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD) |
Career
He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from Brown University.[2] He received the 2016 American Political Science Association's Robert A. Dahl Award for "scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy".[2]
Advocacy
He has advanced his arguments in favor of proportional voting in Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America.[3][4][5] In 2021, Washingtonian magazine listed him as one of the most influential people of Washington D.C., citing his advocacy for proportional voting.[6] He was a regular contributor to FiveThirtyEight, where he wrote on current affairs.[7] His work appeared in Noema,[8] as well as Foreign Policy.[9]
Initially, Drutman advocated for proportional representation (PR) with ranked-choice voting (single transferable vote) in the U.S. political system, arguing that it would reduce political polarization and minimize the risks of democratic backsliding.[10][11][3][12][13] Since 2023, Drutman has argued the United States should use an open-list PR system for multi-seat races (Congress, legislatures, etc.) and fusion voting for inherently single-winner races (the presidency, governors, etc.) instead of ranked-choice voting. Despite opposing the primary system, Drutman says that ranked-choice-voting is useful in large candidate fields.[14][15][16]
Bibliography
- The Business of America Is Lobbying, Oxford University Press, 2015 ISBN 9780190677435.[2][17]
- Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America, Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 9780190913854
