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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]
He has a PhD from the University of California,Berkeley,and a BA from Brown University. [6] He received the 2016 American Political Science Association's Robert A. Dahl Award for "scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy". [6]
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] [7] [8] In 2021,Washingtonian magazine listed him as one of the most influential people of Washington D.C.,citing his advocacy for proportional voting. [9] He is a regular contributor to FiveThirtyEight,where he writes on current affairs. [10] His work appeared in Noema, [11] and Foreign Policy. [12]
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