📣NEW REPORT: What does an "associational party" look like?
Tabatha Abu El-Haj takes a deep dive into the Working Families Party of New York and offers a model for rebuilding political parties from the ground up. @politicalreform.newamerica.org
Read it here: www.newamerica.org/insights/ass...
This is the most useful thing a person today could read on MMP. Extensive, clear explanation of basic mechanics, design variations, downstream effects, etc.
@alexkeena.bsky.social, @oscarp.bsky.social, and Natasha Romero Moskala.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
What if, instead of spamming you with fundraising emails, political parties organized communities, trained leaders, and delivered policy wins? It's not a fantasty. @workingfamilies.org did it.
Learn more in @newamerica.org's new report by Tabatha Abu El-Haj. www.newamerica.org/insights/ass...
This isn't a partisan issue—at least not yet. Democrats are broadly supportive, and Republicans are at or near majority support across the states we surveyed.
Here's the twist - 57 to 65% of voters in these states didn't know their state lacks a ballot initiative process. Only about 10% correctly identified that it does not.