Lee Drutman

Here’s why Congress can’t kick the habit.

Their attitudes are surprisingly different from those of Republican voters and from current Republican lawmakers’ positions.

To win voters, a party has to stand for something. But what would the Forward Party do in office?

Readers were very interested in Jan. 6, the former guy’s hold on the Republican Party, and race

In a divided country, elections are won on the margin

Americans live in an evenly divided country

Under a different voting system, high turnout might be a sign of democratic health

Biden has diversified his Cabinet. His policies to address structural inequalities will matter even more.

Leaders like Alex Gomez and Tomás Robles connected the party to issues voters cared about

These scholars looked at the 2020 elections — and what happens next

Alaska’s new voting system makes it hard for Republicans to punish her

Watch the people who are both culturally conservative and want economic protections — in other words, Trump’s populist base

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Lee Drutman’s recent Monkey Cage piece challenges a finding from

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The general public, political pundits, policymakers and the media agree:

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As the 2014 midterm election campaigns headed into their last

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This is a guest post by political scientist Lee Drutman,

The Sunlight Foundation's Lee Drutman and Alexander Furnas have some

Popular discussions of lobbying focus on quid pro quo transactions

This is a guest post by political scientist and Sunlight

A first cut at the data from Lee Drutman concludes:

Lee Drutman brings the graphs (House, Senate). Here is one:

bq. Congress now speaks at almost a full grade level

* Rick Hasen on Citizens United. The c4's should be

* Sasha Issenberg on the political parties and data-mining. Also

bq. The ten Fortune 100 companies that lobbied on 50

bq. This paper argues that high-handed moralizing about lobbying misses

bq. ...anger promotes what many observers see as civic virtues

Following on Henry's "post":https://themonkeycage.org/2011/02/the_invisible_american_welfare.html, see "this story":http://www.miller-mccune.com/politics/probing-the-depths-of-the-submerged-state-28031/ in Miller-McCune by

It seems like every time a party is defeated in

* Barry Eichengreen: "Is America Catching the British Disease?":http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/eichengreen24/English. The

[Hat tip to Lee Drutman.]

"Daniel Ziblatt":http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dziblatt/ sends along this piece (pdf), "Can Social Science

The U.S. has “a campaign finance system that is nothing

"We'll be the checks and balances on this out-of-control, criminal

bq. Ultimately, any attempt to simplify lobbying as either fundamentally

bq. Were Republicans more likely to be elected governor in

Lee Drutman, last seen here guest-blogging on corporate lobbying, sends

Campaign donations may not have direct policy payoffs for the

We welcome Lee Drutman, who will be guest-blogging with us

Lee Drutman sends along this graph and some questions to

As a sort of follow-up to Drutman, "this paper":http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/FACSEMINARS/events/political_economy/documents/pe_12_08_trebbi.pdf by

Bailout monies as a fraction of assets are on the

How do I know? Because the number of counterintuitive findings