China’s National Day, president Xi Jinping will have much to celebrate. The country looks starkly different from the war-torn ...

American democracy is broken, but partisanship alone is not to blame. Political scientist Lee Drutman places our two-party system instead at the center of the American democratic crisis. Of course, ...

A terse telegram from Dar es Salaam first alerted Barclays Bank in London of the unexpected and immediate nationalization of its local subsidiary in Tanzania. “We are advised full compensation will be ...

At a recent congressional hearing on “the Chinese Communist Party’s political warfare,” U.S. House Representative Jasmine ...

These responses highlight the severity of the democratic challenges we face and the necessity of debate in assessing paths forward. Three key themes emerge. First, most respondents agree that ...

Drutman can’t possibly be right that the two-party system is “the whole ballgame.” The hyperpartisanship and dysfunctional politics that concerns him is happening not just in countries with two-party ...

Drutman is a rarity in American politics: a process-oriented reformer who is also a cheerleader for political parties. Ever since the Gilded Age, reformers aiming to fiddle with rules, clean up ...

Drutman makes a persuasive and important case about both the need and the strategy for moving beyond a sclerotic two-party system. His core recommendation—reviving fusion voting to empower more ...

Single-member districts are the real issue. Political competition is a function of electoral rules. Just as a duopolistic market does not come about by chance, a party system confined to only two ...