Lee Drutman is an American political scientist. He is a senior fellow at the

New America Foundation New America, formerly the New America Foundation, is an American Modern liberalism in the United States, liberal think tank founded in 1999. It focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security, technology, health, gender, ...

. He is known as an advocate for

proportional representation Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) amon ...

with

ranked-choice voting Ranked-choice voting may be used as a synonym for: * Ranked voting, a term used for any voting system in which voters are asked to rank candidates in order of preference * Instant-runoff voting (IRV), a specific ranked voting system with single-wi ...

in the U.S. political system, arguing that it would reduce

political polarization Political polarization (spelled ''polarisation'' in British English, Australian English, and New Zealand English) is the divergence of political attitudes away from the center, towards ideological extremes. Scholars distinguish between ideologi ...

and minimize the risks of

democratic backsliding Democratic backsliding or autocratization is a process of regime change toward autocracy in which the exercise of political power becomes more arbitrary and repressive. The process typically restricts the space for public contest and politi ...

Life

He has a PhD from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, and a BA from

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

. He received the 2016

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's Robert A. Dahl Award for "scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy". He has advanced his arguments in favor of proportional voting in ''Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America''. In 2021, ''Washingtonian'' magazine listed him as one of the most influential people of Washington D.C., citing his advocacy for proportional voting. He is a regular contributor to ''

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'', where he writes on current affairs. His work appeared in ''Noema'', as well as ''

Foreign Policy Foreign policy, also known as external policy, is the set of strategies and actions a State (polity), state employs in its interactions with other states, unions, and international entities. It encompasses a wide range of objectives, includ ...

''.

Bibliography

* ''The Business of America Is Lobbying,'' Oxford University Press, 2015 . * ''Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America,'' Oxford University Press, 2020.

References

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