Schlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and equality.

The modern voting rights movement has become a tool to preserve the Black politician’s job, particularly the establishment Democrat.

With “the crown jewel” of civil rights legislation gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court, and possibly the seats of 20 Black members of Congress at stake in November, voting rights advocates on Wednesday c...

Learn about democracy reform and help shape a fairer electoral system with more choices and better representation for California.

Political scientist Paul Frymer argues that Democrats should not wholly abandon civil rights causes in pursuit on winning in purple and red states.

Podcast Episode · Ungerrymander America · September 25 · 50m

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Tuesday the Labour Party will contest the next election ​with a manifesto commitment to change the electoral system, ‌after he announced he was establishing a natio...

If we are prepared and play our cards right, we may have a window of opportunity to build new election systems that reflect Americans’ choices.

After Callais v. Louisiana, winner-take-all districts make racial and partisan gerrymandering inevitable, and proportional representation through the Fair Representation Act would better protect votin...

If California's state legislature had six political parties, which would you belong to?

Learn about democracy reform and help shape a fairer electoral system with more choices and better representation for California.

In 1993 New Zealanders voted to replace their traditional first past the post (FPP) voting system with mixed member proportional representation (MMP). Eighteen years on, as Kiwis voted in a new electo...

WASHINGTON, DC — Last week, Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez attended a hearing held by the House Committee on Rules to advocate for changes to House rules for next Congress. She urged the commi...

The Twin Falls County Fair wrapped up as independent U.S. Senate candidate Todd Achilles campaigned there, discussing rising costs, health care and congressional reform with voters in the Magic Valley...

Achilles talked to Military.com about fighting corruption, better health care, and ending endless wars. He faces 83-year-old GOP Sen. Jim Risch.

Elected officials, legal scholars, academics, and voting rights leaders across the political spectrum support proportional representation.

Voters overwhelmingly want something different, but don’t know or understand the reform options on the table.

Much of what ails us can be blamed on the steady degradation of the legislature as the other branches of government grabbed power for themselves. It’s time to start undoing the damage.

As proportional representation attracts more interest—like in British Columbia, where voters will soon decide by referendum whether to adopt proportional representation (PR) for provincial elections—c...

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Three high-school leaders share what energizes them about American politics: more parties and more pathways to get involved.

Under proportional representation, gerrymandering is prohibitively difficult. The system would end the redistricting wars for good.

Democrats can save the country from an authoritarian takeover, but to do so they must focus on systemic reforms, the author argues in this adaptation from his new book.

A new poll shows support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to a party's vote share.

VIDEO: 3rd Annual Wallace Symposium Keynote Conversation

Gerrymandering persists because single-member districts allow it.

The current congressional map for Georgia gives nine of 14 House seats to Republicans and five to Democrats, but Georgia is divided politically 50-50. The system must change.

Under proportional representation, gerrymandering is prohibitively difficult. The system would end the redistricting wars for good.