{"id":3503613,"date":"2024-09-26T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?p=3503613"},"modified":"2024-09-25T20:18:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:18:29","slug":"breaking-the-two-party-doom-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2024-09-26\/breaking-the-two-party-doom-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Political polarization, particularly in the United States, is being inflamed by structural forces, including the dominance of two parties, the nationalization of politics, winner-take-all representation, and the geography of political homogeneity \u2013 where encountering people with different political views is increasingly rare. But there are proven solutions to these structural drivers of polarization.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this conversation, journalist and podcaster Rachel Donald speaks with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/our-people\/lee-drutman\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lee Drutman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America, on reforms like proportional representation and multi-member districts, and why we should view democracy more like a living, evolving ecosystem than a problem to fix.<\/span><\/p><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-92c8a4b5\">\n<p>Here is a preview of the interview:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lee Drutman Interview Clip\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1012563339?h=7e6dde0d63&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"resp-content-preview-message\">\r\n\t<h2>See more at Resilience+<\/h2>\r\n\t<p>Log in&mdash;or sign up for free&mdash;to see the rest of this post at Resilience+, where you can get first-hand access to events with experts, facilitated discussions, and educational resources.<\/p>\r\n\t<a class=\"res-btn-yellow\" href=\"\/enter\/\">Log In or Sign Up<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political polarization, particularly in the United States, is being inflamed by structural forces, including the dominance of two parties and winner-take-all representation. Lee Drutman, senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America, speaks on reforms like proportional representation and multi-member districts, and why we should view democracy more like a living, evolving ecosystem than a problem to fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128248,"featured_media":3503618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[252007,79720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resilience-plus","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503646,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503613\/revisions\/3503646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3503618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}