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Periscope

Looking up close at the nitty-gritty of democracy policy and political reform

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Open List PR methods in Finland and Sweden show that the devil is in the details; well-designed institutions must respect a nation’s culture, history…

Mar 17

Landslide wins in two more cities to use ranked choice voting, the Oscars use RCV to choose Best Picture, and reformers are thinking big

Mar 14

International Women's Day: Citizens’ activism, legal battles and indirect democracy have expanded the gender rights in Europe, decade after decade

Mar 7

New report on women's representation in 100 largest cities highlights importance of RCV, public campaign financing, term limits and support groups for…

Alissa Bombardier Shaw

Feb 8

Americans’ prejudices about China cloud our understanding of both China and our own representative democracy

Dec 22, 2022

Ranked choice voting has pulled off a small miracle – moderate Republicans and Democrats co-governing

Dec 7, 2022

Some democratic methods help "divided societies" reduce polarization; other methods exacerbate it.

Dec 2, 2022

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