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Long time no see! Wanted to let everyone still here know that I'm excited to share a new essay at @FLSdemocracy, about the Supreme Court's failure to recognize the link between vote dilution, political equality, and the proportional allocation of power: fordhamdemocracyproject.com/โฆ
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After Callais: Understanding the Power of Electoral System Design open.substack.com/pub/houstoโฆ
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Our latest @MSNOWNews The best response to the Supreme Courtโs Callais ruling: proportional representation ms.now/opinion/supreme-courtโฆ
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Controlling For Party Affiliation, by @mlatner open.substack.com/pub/mikelaโฆ
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Excellent work on Black political empowerment and electoral system design!
Apr 2
We often ask who wins elections. But who decides to run? New @ElectoralStdies w/Hayes: Multi-member districts โฌ๏ธ Black candidate emergenceโand political empowerment matters. We revisit assumptions about US electoral design and show who enters the pipelineโnot just who wins.
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While Iโm not convinced that a new fusion โpartyโ could pull enough GOP votes to elect the DEM nominee in 2024, I support this fusion voting effort based on the logic that it can incentivize multiparty coalitions, which we badly need.
12 Jul 2024
100 leading democracy scholars make a compelling case for re-legalizing fusion voting.
"We believe that its revival today would reinvigorate our democracy by improving representation and accountability while strengthening votersโ rightsโฆ"
electionlawblog.org/?p=14443โฆ
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Mike on the Mic๐ดโโ ๏ธ๐๐ก๐บ๐ธ retweeted
16 Jan 2024
I have soft launched the site, UnderstandingCongress.org. The site aims to explain the what, why, and how of Congress, and includes both curated and original content.
Please have a look, and send me suggestions/pitches for content.
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Outstanding contributions from a range of scholars on the future of democracy in the US
democracyjournal.org/magazinโฆ
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Very proud that my @UCSUSA ciolleague Kristina Dahl has been named @TIME magazines top 100 for her amazing climate science! time.com/collection/time100-โฆ
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My First Substack! Reflections on the March on Washington, by @mlatner open.substack.com/pub/mikelaโฆ
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Exciting to see such a broad range of policy experts converging on real solutions...
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Trying to get my brother Medicaid/Disability services in TX, my theory = TX "Health & Human Services" made entirely of no reply emails and an intricate series of phone numbers with circular push button tracing to each other in infinite regress to make you quit. Prove me wrong TX.
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Well my first #IPSA2023 in 10 years is done, so happy to recontact with comparativists, make new friends, and think about new adventures, see you all in #Seoul2025!
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Samurai were 10x the rugged indivdualists as cowboys. And they did it with swords and jujustu.
18 Jul 2023
Tokyo has *ten times* as many bars and restaurants as New York City, by a conservative count. And far more often than in NYC, the person behind the counter is an owner/operator marching to the beat of their own drum & creating a physical space that embodies their personal vision.
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Is Electoral Systems and Race a growing subfield? Expanding body of research on how systems shape descriptive representation and party coalitions #IPSA2023 @jacksantucci @laderafrutal @Yuki_Atsusaka
Laws of politics: Seat Product predicts # of leg parties among BIPOC members almost perfectly, across systems, but city racial composition (% BIPOC) and electoral formula shape whether BIPOC members come from fewer or more parties relative to whites #IPSA2023
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I'll say Renaissance rather than growing, this work builds on a research agenda that was very active in the 80's and 90's, with Americanists like @trounstine @mevaldini and others continuing this work, but there is definitely growth at #IPSA2023 among comparativists. That's good.
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Laws of politics: Seat Product predicts # of leg parties among BIPOC members almost perfectly, across systems, but city racial composition (% BIPOC) and electoral formula shape whether BIPOC members come from fewer or more parties relative to whites #IPSA2023
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