CPF Research Presentation: Political Reforms

As part of the Center for the Political Future's Unruh Institute POSC 395 Policy Research Internship, students work collaboratively with community partners to develop policy solutions to real world challenges facing the Los Angeles community and state.
For the Fall 2023 semester, CPF POSC 395 Policy Research Internship students examined political reforms that have the greatest chance of passage and reducing political polarization in the United States. They explored nonpartisan redistricting, partisan primaries, ranked-choice voting, and other lesser-known measures. Students examined which states passed which reforms and whether they successfully reduced political polarization and increased civic engagement. They also explored failed reform efforts to understand whether reforms failed on merit or because of poor execution or overwhelming minority opposition. They presented their extensive research to our partner, FixUS.
Project: Political Reforms: Ranked Choice, Nonpartisan Redistricting, and Open Primaries
USC Students: Ysabelle Buenavista, Samantha Chacko, Eleanor Love, Andrew Lutz, and Shwetha Rajmohan
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My congratulations to all the speakers. Each presentation was very clearly explained. Well done. Political polarisation is good in the sense that it encourages democracy for as long as both parties do not go to extremes. But, there is nothing better than a positive discussion.