Outside the Beltway

Forget the “republic v. a democracy” abstraction. The numbers show some serious flaws in translating popular will into government.

A reference point for the future.

Negotiations over government formation is not a crisis.

In which I use a lot of words to say hello.

Dare I say: hate the game, not the players?

Looking into uncontested and partially contest House districts from the 2014 cycle.

In the first entry in this series we looked at a basic question of democratic theory. In this one, we look at whether the EC ever worked as the Framers intended.