Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is growing support for electoral reform in the U.S. PeterSnow/Getty Images In the face of widespread pessimism about the ...

With an increasingly polarized Congress and fewer competitive elections, there are growing calls among some election reformers to change how voters elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Imagine a Congress where politicians of different ideologies work together to pass legislation reflecting what most Americans want. This isn’t hypothetical; it’s how Congress worked for much of the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jennifer Lynn McCoy, Georgia State University (THE CONVERSATION) In the face of ...

Jennifer Lynn McCoy receives funding from the Carnegie Corporation for an Andrew Carnegie fellowship on depolarization as well as the Institute for Humane Studies.. She is Regent's Professor of ...