Lee Drutman | |
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Education | Brown University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD) |
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 with ranked-choice voting in the U.S. political system, arguing that it would reduce political polarization and minimize the risks of democratic backsliding. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from Brown University. [7] He received the 2016 American Political Science Association's Robert A. Dahl Award for "scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy". [7]
He has advanced his arguments in favor of proportional voting in Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America. [4] [8] [9] In 2021, Washingtonian magazine listed him as one of the most influential people of Washington D.C., citing his advocacy for proportional voting. [10] He was a regular contributor to FiveThirtyEight , where he wrote on current affairs. [11] His work appeared in Noema, [12] as well as Foreign Policy . [13]
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