In the wake of the 2020 election, many ideas have been proposed to reform the electoral process, and some have actually passed via ballot measure. In Alaska, Ballot Measure 2 [2], the “Top-Four Ranked-Choice Voting and Campaign Finance Laws Initiative,” implemented multiple reforms to the state’s primary and general election processes. But will this initiative make much of a difference? How might we expect legislators’ behavior to change in response? And just what is the intellectual foundation that underlies ranked-choice voting and nonpartisan primaries?

Join us as Jonathan Bydlak, head of R Street’s Governance program, talks about the potentially significant changes set in motion by the initiative with Katherine Gehl, author of The Politics Industry [3] and founder of The Institute for Political Innovation, and Scott Kendall, the creator of Alaska Ballot Measure 2.

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Additional Reading

• Alaska Ballot Measure 2 [4]
• “The Political Reform Movement Scores Its Biggest Win Yet [5],” The Atlantic
• The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy [6], Katherine M. Gehl, et al
• “A powerful, nonpartisan solution to fix U.S. Politics [7],” Katherine M. Gehl and TEDxMileHigh