New Common Ground Democracy essay on Philip Bump’s Washington Post column.

A new Common Ground Democracy post. As discussed therein, it’s worth contemplating what the first 100 days of a Nikki Haley presidency would have been like in comparison, which arguably is what a majority of Americans wanted but were… Continue reading

Just in time for March Madness: here’s a Common Ground Democracy essay describing a new form of voting that resembles the much-beloved NCAA men’s and women’s tournaments. This essay is based on my contribution to the symposium that the Ohio… Continue reading

The latest in the mini-series of podcasts relating to Ohio State Law Journal‘s symposium on Nick Stephanopoulos’s Aligning Election Law features Joshua Sellers. It’s a really great discussion. Available on YouTube and Apple Podcasts.

To whet your appetite for tomorrow’s symposium on “Election Law in a Misaligned America”, a preview “Law and Democracy” podcast with Nick Stephanopoulos is available on YouTube and Apple Podcasts. It’s an informative conversation, which I plan to… Continue reading

As part of its mini-series of episodes previewing the symposium on Nick Stephanopoulos’s book Aligning Election Law, the Law & Democracy podcast invited Rick Pildes, who will be participating in the symposium, to provide some preliminary thoughts on Nick’s book… Continue reading

Over at Common Ground Democracy, I’ve posted “The Senate Has Surrendered Its Constitutional Responsibilities,” explaining that the existing electoral system has caused the Senate to fail in its constitutional role of thwarting presidential despotism and “electoral reform can… Continue reading

The Ohio State Law Journal is hosting a symposium focused on Nick Stephanopoulos’s important new book Aligning Election Law. It’s next Friday, February 21. It’s got a great lineup of presenters, including Nick’s keynote and follow-up conversation with my Ohio… Continue reading

The latest episode of the Law & Democracy podcast is a preview for the symposium that the Ohio State Law Journal is hosting to discuss Nick Stephanopoulos’s important new book Aligning Election Law. More details about the symposium will be… Continue reading

Nate Atkinson and Ezra Friedman have posted this paper on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: Should states retain plurality rule or adopt a different voting method? We study the class of sequential plurality procedures, covering all widely-used single-winner election methods… Continue reading

On Thursday, Rick linked to a DemocracySoS essay by Greg Dennis arguing that Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) is categorically “superior to Condorcet Voting as a tool for political depolarization.” To support his position, Dennis offers two arguments, neither of which… Continue reading

A short Common Ground Democracy post with this subtitle: “Post-inauguration, there continue to be misunderstandings of the election.”

Democracy: A Journal of Ideas published this piece that I wrote on the failure of the electoral system to produce an outcome corresponding to “the real preference of the Voters” (Madison’s term for when a third candidate is… Continue reading

I’ve written this Common Ground Democracy [Substack] essay to summarize what’s important about James Madison’s 1823 letter that I analyze in the new law review article posted on SSRN, to be published in the Wisconsin Law Review. The key… Continue reading