Today’s reformers join a long history of groups that have tried, and failed, to eliminate the institution.
Lee Drutman
Lee Drutman is a senior fellow in the New America Political Reform program and the author of Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, September/October 2019
Why It’s So Hard to Build Trust In Government
Americans literally can’t believe popular public programs are public.
Posted inBooks, July/August 2019, Magazine, Main
The Cork Board President
The Donald Trump era requires a new theory of conspiracy theories.
Posted inMagazine, November/December 2018
To Fix Congress, Make It Bigger. Much Bigger.
Radically expanding the House of Representatives would help solve some of the biggest problems facing Congress and, by extension, the country.
Posted inBooks, Featured, July/August 2018, Magazine
United We Fall
The more homogenous the parties become, the uglier the divide between them.
Posted inBooks, Featured, January/February/March 2018, Magazine
Rage Against the Machines
How party activists deliberately made Congress more partisan.
Posted inBooks, Featured, Magazine, November/December 2017
Congress Wasn’t Always This Awful
A former Senate staffer reminds us of a time when lawmakers actually got stuff done.
Posted inBooks, June/July/August 2017, Magazine, Main
Tribalists and Ideologues
Turns out voters just really wanna win.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2016
Trump’s Supporters Revealed
Two new books underscore the big lesson of 2016: GOP base voters hate big government spending only when the “wrong” people benefit.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, March/April/May 2016, Politics
The “Con” in Political Consulting
Why candidates spend billions on ads and experts of marginal value.
