Lee Drutman and Rob Oldham at New American have published a new report exploring how multiple parties in Congress might affect governance. This is huge. Any move toward structural reform must demonstrate that legislatures would be better able to deliver policies to the American public under the new system than under our existing system. Toward this end, Drutman and Oldham suggest specific changes to congressional rules that could (a) ensure that factions with political parties were rewarded for their contributions to the governing coalition (such as through committee assignment), while also (b) preventing such factions from easily bringing down the coalition with the majority.

I am SUPER excited to read this!