📣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
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New York’s Working Families Party demonstrates how political parties can rebuild community ties, foster participation, and translate electoral leverage into policy wins.
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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.
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The use of single-seat districts and majoritarian rules for legislative elections is associated with many problems in American politics. However, this method of...
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.
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24 states give citizens no direct path to place measures on the ballot. Our new survey suggests residents in many of those states would like one, but advocates need to bridge the awareness gap first. Read more: www.newamerica.org/insights/low...
We found majority support for adopting a ballot initiative process in every state we surveyed, with opposition ranging from 7-13%. Support far exceeded opposition everywhere, often by margins of 5-to-1 or greater.
