I love how Arnold Ventures John Arnold gives their interns so much visibility! No reason why other orgs can't do this in the age of social media. A huge part of a successful internship program is setting your interns up for a wide range of future opportunities.

Mostly agree, and we've updated Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 and Maresa Strano's summaries here: knapsackfund.notion.site/Primaries-rank… I'd say the most promising evidence on RCV recently has been when it's combined with top-four primaries, but jury is still out! Probably the most important thing is to

Must-read from Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 and Rob Oldham! More (and better) parties is very likely the answer to many of the problems that people lament in our politics today, not no parties or weaker parties.

This ongoing collation and synthesis by oscar pocasangre and New America is excellent. For a slightly different format on much of the same underlying information, check out our knowledge base here: knapsackfund.notion.site/Primaries-rank…

Very thoughtful indeed: Sightline Institute posits that the path to proportional representation is long and winding and passes through intermediate things like RCV. This makes sense, but probably depends on your timeline and specifying the counterfactual. I have also heard from activists

Important note from Mike Barber. (Also, this caveat applies to almost anything people are looking up related to this election and politics more broadly...)

5 insights on political parties from Biden's exit 1. It wasn't always this way 2. Parties solve collective problems 3. Devolving Power to Parties Would Strengthen Democracy 4. Parties Are Not the Problem – 2 Parties Are 5. Electoral Reform, the Way Out newamerica.org/political-refo…

This is a crazy thing to do, but 10 years ago I had an idea for a dissertation that I was really, really excited about but never pursued. The basic idea is that political representation (or "indirect democracy") is a form of intermediation that changes the moral calculus of

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Would mass affective polarization be *even higher* if we had a system of direct democracy where we could hold voters of the out-party even more directly responsible for passing policies that we find morally repugnant? At the same time, would voters be less likely to support

CPI inflation less shelter is 1.7%. Shelter inflation is 5.1%, and accounted for 90% of the increase in July. The problem is (inadequate) housing.

As someone who's obsessed about creating automated lit reviews for the past 10+ years, I'm excited about this. But as someone who gave up on that quest and now does manual lit reviews as part of my job, I still find Google Scholar to be the most helpful tool. What do you think?

Approval delays & uncertainty are responsible for a large deficit in multifamily housing construction in Los Angeles papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Reminds me of this paper showing that top-5/RCV elections leave less room for third-party and independent candidates: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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+ this more recent paper with a similar finding: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…