Electoral Reforms, Governing Coalitions, and the Importance of Political Parties With Jack Santucci

One of the main themes of this campaign is that the two party system is insufficient to represent the diversity of political perspectives that exist in Maryland. Thus our work is  to grow the movement for multiparty democracy at the state and local level.    One of the main themes of this podcast is to talk to the people whose ideas, scholarship and advocacy influence and inspire my campaign.   This episode is a great convergence of those two themes. Jack Santucci is a political scientist, educator, and author of More Parties or No Parties: The Politics of Electoral Reform in America(Oxford UP, 2022). His research centers on electoral systems and voting behavior in the United States.   In this show we will cover the history of electoral reforms and the push and pull between party based reforms and anti-party reforms.   Then we will talk about the imitations possibilities and limits of some different electoral systems that could replace the current one Research And Resources:   Democracy Works Podcast https://www.democracyworkspodcast.com/santucci/   Democracy Journal Avoiding the PR Mistakes of the Past https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/70/avoiding-the-pr-mistakes-of-the-past/   More Parties or No Parties: The Politics of Electoral Reform in America https://academic.oup.com/book/43846?login=false   Toward a Different Kind of Party Government: Proportional Representation for Federal Elections https://www.jacksantucci.com/docs/papers/santucci-shugart-latner_2023_apsa-pd-parties-report.pdf   "Can Electoral Reform Break the Two-Party Hegemony in America?" APSA 2023 Roundtable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRvbU7tT_bA   2022 Maryland General Assembly  Results By Party and District https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l_wEU2BddiLHF8UscHu4xIlXL8B2ambd-sZc5DV1vvY/edit?usp=sharing