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Electoral Systems: Navigating the Maze
Electoral System: Mixed-Member Proportional (MMP)
Electoral System: Single Transferable Vote (STV)
Electoral System: Cumulative Voting
Electoral System: Limited Voting
Electoral System: Parallel Voting
Electoral System: Fusion Voting
Proportional and Parliamentary: Often Paired, but They Don’t Have to Be
Neither Fish nor Fowl: the Special Case of Ranked Ballots in Presidential Primaries
Models & Maps: A Comparative Systems Analysis
Models & Maps: Proportional Elections
Models & Maps: Semi-Proportional Elections
STV: Beating the "Shoo-In” Effect in Multi-Winner Elections With Surplus Transfer
Non-reciprocal ethnic cohesion in STV rankings
STV: How Important Is the "T"?
A Divided Electorate: From Block Voting to PR (STV explainer via slides)
STV/PR Doesn't Affect Incumbent Reelection Rates
Projecting Relative Campaign Costs for Two Different Electoral Systems
The Number of Rankings Voters Mark on Their STV ballots
Computerizing a Cambridge Tradition
RCV Implementation in Amherst: Information and Resources
Technically Speaking (1959 School Committee example, Worcester)
1953 Worcester School Committee Analysis With Result Pages
Thresholds and Flow Charts, IRV and STV
PR Thresholds & Worcester At-Large races, 2011-2019
Less Than 8% of Voters Bullet Vote in These STV elections; Here's Where They Happen
Why Not Instant Runoff Voting for Legislative Elections?
Instant Runoff Voting: The Problem with Primaries
Turnout Under Different Electoral Systems: It's Complicated
Race, US History and Political Dysfunction
Origin Story: Winner-Take-All Elections in the United States and Its Mentor, Great Britain
What if? US Senator Charles Buckalew Challenged Winner-Take-All in the 1860s
Proportional Alternatives Have Been Available for Over 170 years
Voter Suppression Thrives in Winner-Take-All Elections
“Racial Voting” Was Evident in the US Earlier Than You Might Think
Race, Runoffs, and Majority Requirements in Winner-Take-All Elections
Bipartisanship Doesn’t Mean Much Without Representation: What the 1956 Highway Act Means in 2021
From Goldwater to Trump: Racism as Republican Party campaign strategy, 1964-2021
US Winner-Take-All Elections Have Not All Been Single-Winner Elections
E Pluribus Unum: Celebrating a Measure of Diversity in Post-Colonial America
No Longer Afraid of Lani Guinier
Voting Rights in Gingles: The Alternative Single Shot Not Taken
The 1986 Gingles Voting Rights Precedent: One Important Step Forward; One Giant Leap Not Taken (a brief summary of above)
Modified At-Large Remedies to Intentional Discrimination in Alabama: Spotlight on Chilton County
Port Chester: Voting Rights in a Small New York Suburb
How cumulative voting Came to Texas School Boards
Cumulative Voting Remedy and Results in Ferguson, MO
Anatomy of an STV Voting Rights Remedy in Eastpointe, MI
The “Donut” Compromise in the Desert: STV District Surrounds a Single-Member district
Getting Ahead of the Representation Curve in Albany, GA
Minority Vote Dilution in Yakima County, WA: Districts With an At-Large Twist
Voting Rights Lawsuit Challenges At-Large School Committee Elections in Worcester, MA
Before They Were White: PR and “Ethnicity” in Pre-Voting Rights Act America
Public Policy Issues and PR Municipal Elections: Two Case Studies
Diverse Representation on New York City’s Forgotten Community School Boards
Cross-Community Alliances at Work in Cambridge: the 1989 City council Election
Progressive Era Reform in Ohio
The Enduring Legacy of Inclusive Democracy in Cambridge, MA
Lowell, MA: Choosing Among Different Voting Rights Remedies, Revisiting its PR Past
District and Ethnic Loyalties Under PR (Lowell, MA)
District and Ethnic Loyalties Under Proportional Representation in Worcester, 1949-1959
The 1994 Rent Control Initiative in Massachusetts: A Window into Voting Patterns in Cambridge
Worcester City Council, Geographic Distribution 1949-1959
1994 Preference Voting Event, Worcester
When Running Leads to Winning: Women and PR in Cambridge
Nelson Mandela and the Urgent Gift of Proportional Representation
Proportional Representation in a Pandemic
PR and a National Unity Government in Israel
Not All Zero-Sum Games Are Created Equal
Fulcrum, Jan 5, 2021: What Georgia Teaches Us About the Problems With Winner-Take-All Elections
Partisan PR elections in the US
A More Representative State House of Representatives: Illinois, 1870-1980
New Hampshire’s Multi-Member Legislative Districts Can Set the Nation's Table for STV/PR Reform
Party and Town Preferences in Two NH Multi-Member Districts
Partisan Results in Multi-Member Districts in Grafton County, NH
Political Parties, Race, and the Limits of Redistricting Reform
Voter Self-Districting Under STV
William Barr and the Republican Embrace of Race-Based Gerrymandering, 1991-1992
Massachusetts "Hybrid" Cities Have Not Fared Well in Diversifying Representation
The “All Politics is Local” Politician Once Won a Citywide PR Election
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