Political polarization in the United States has increased dramatically, hampering the functioning of American government. Some scholars attribute this dynamic to the use of plurality elections and posit that a ranked choice voting (RCV) system may promote greater bipartisanship. Maine’s 2016...

This research project investigates whether one of the purported benefits of Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) – an expanded candidate pool – has been realized in the cities where it has been implemented. Employing a difference-in-differences approach with matching, I find that any increase in the...

I review the recent book by Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki that critiques the traditional model of social choice based on ranking and proposes to replace it with a new model, majority judgment, that is based on grading