Stearns, a law professor at the University of Maryland, proposes three constitutional amendments that would, for starters, double the size of the House of Representatives, which would be elected using ...
MINSK, 17 September (BelTA) – Belarus should gradually transition to mixed-member proportional representation. Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Vladimir ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is growing support for electoral reform in the U.S. PeterSnow/Getty Images In the face of widespread pessimism about the ...
Thanks to the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on the legislative filibuster, any notion of Congress making a sustained push for democratic reforms is functionally dead. Voting rights ...
Would proportional representation be a better way of electing legislatures? This old idea, which dates back to John Stuart Mill and Nicolas de Condorcet, has been gaining ground among political ...
Renée Webb’s opinion piece in The Royal Gazette, dated Friday, September 27, and the entire narrative concerning the intended candidature of more independent electoral candidates is an interesting ...
Redistricting, gerrymandering and representation in Congress have become headline issues across the nation. For Hoosiers, it seems that the early redistricting effort has come to a halt, but the ...
Proportional representation (PR) uses large, multi-member districts in which seats are allocated according to the percentage of the vote cast by various political groups. For example, in a five-seat ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jennifer Lynn McCoy, Georgia State University (THE CONVERSATION) In the face of ...