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Podcast: A Kansas reformer is crusading to fix the “hot mess” that is American politics (opens the original)
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On the latest episode of This Old Democracy, Micah Sifry talks with Scott Morgan, executive director of the United Kansas Party and the party’s candidate for Kansas Secretary of State.Morgan is a fifth-generation Kansan who has been around politics for most of his life. His father was the Kansas political editor for the Kansas City Star. Morgan worked for Senators Bob Dole and Nancy Kassebaum, served as chief counsel for Dole’s presidential campaign, worked for a Republican governor, and served
Independents’ Day? (opens the original)
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It’s no secret that the two-party system in America no longer enjoys a place of honor and respect in our society. It’s hard to believe it ever did, but regardless that era is long gone. In our time it is often asserted, almost as a truism, that “people hate parties.”I don’t think that’s quite right. People don’t harbor an inborn hostility towards groups of like-minded people who join together to advance their views in public life (aka, a political party). What they hate is the failure of governm
Podcast: Tom Asher on why we need "thick" political parties (opens the original)
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On the latest episode of This Old Democracy, Micah Sifry talks with Tom Asher, the director of research and global engagement at Columbia World Projects. Tom is leading a university-wide working group that seeks to turn academic insights into pathways for action on challenging civic and social problems.For the past two years, Tom and his colleagues at Columbia World Projects have been working in partnership with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University, focus
Podcast: Sam Bagenstos on litigating our way to a multi-party system in Michigan (opens the original)
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On the latest episode of This Old Democracy, Micah Sifry talks with Samuel Bagenstos, the Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and a professor of public policy at the Ford School. The principal topic: a lawsuit he’s helped bring to get us out of the two-party “doom loop.”Bagenstos has spent his career moving between scholarship, litigation, and government service. He served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the Obama Justice Department, then as g
The Pendulum Problem: What Policy Whiplash Is Costing Us (opens the original)
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Not too long ago, one of my colleagues was scrolling through Reddit and stumbled on a post that caught his eye:<source type="image/web
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