Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸
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Political scientist @Calpoly, Guinier Project Research Director @HLS voting rights/electoral systems. Employers are ashamed of my tweets.
We often ask who wins elections. But who decides to run? New @ElectoralStdies w/Hayes: Multi-member districts ⬆️ Black candidate emergence—and political empowerment matters. We revisit assumptions about US electoral design and show who enters the pipeline—not just who wins.
100+ leading democracy scholars make a compelling case for re-legalizing fusion voting. "We believe that its revival today would reinvigorate our democracy by improving representation and accountability while strengthening voters’ rights…" electionlawblog.org/?p=144435
Tokyo has *ten times* as many bars and restaurants as New York City, by a conservative count. And far more often than in NYC, the person behind the counter is an owner/operator marching to the beat of their own drum & creating a physical space that embodies their personal vision.
