Can Congress Better Represent Americans?

Deep polarization. Partisan gridlock. Gerrymandering. Shutdowns. Record low levels of trust in political institutions. In this challenging landscape, solutions that could meaningfully improve our politics for the future are more important than ever.

Join us for a discussion of Expanding Representation: Reinventing Congress in the 21st Century, the latest publication from the Our Common Purpose project. The result of deliberations from the Academy’s working group on electoral design, this report outlines how one change could improve representation, reduce partisan divides, and end gerrymandering. Join us to learn what proportional representation is, why it matters for our current moment, what it can and cannot fix, and how it can be designed and implemented for American institutions today. 

More information about the publication and the publication are online.