Lee Drutman

Lee Drutman is an American political scientist. He is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He is known as an advocate for proportional representation with Ranked-choice voting in [the United States|ranked-choice voting] in the U.S. political system, arguing that it would reduce political polarization and minimize the risks of democratic backsliding.

Life

He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from Brown University. He received the 2016 American [Political Science Association]'s Robert A. Dahl Award for "scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy".
He has advanced his arguments in favor of proportional voting in Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America. In 2021, Washingtonian magazine listed him as one of the most influential people of Washington D.C., citing his advocacy for proportional voting. He was a regular contributor to FiveThirtyEight, where he wrote on current affairs. His work appeared in Noema, as well as Foreign Policy.