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Larry Diamond, Special to CalMatters Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University, ldiamond@stanford.edu. It’s game on for the recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom. The gubernatorial recall in 2003 that struck California like an earthquake seems like ancient history, so here is a quick recap in a bid to help California do it better than the last time. In that wildest of Wild West elections, there were 135 candidates running to replace Gov. Gray Davis, including movie stars, a porn star, a pornographer, recovering politicians and w...

This column is about fixing our broken country. So much ink is being spilled nowadays on who gets to vote. Voting rights are important, but what’s more important is how we vote. In a word, it’s terrible. Our voting system is terrible because it’s winner-take-all (also called “first past the post”), and because legislative elections have only one winner. Virtually no other modern democracy does it that way. Most democracies have multiple parties and districts with multiple winners, with the seats allocated in proportion to how many votes the candidates and/or parties received. Most c...

The amendment under Ballot Measure 2: Broadens transparency in money flowing into state elections; Implements a nonpartisan top-four primary; and Makes Alaska the second state to adopt ranked choice voting in general elections. Read More: Members of the Republican, Libertarian, and American Independence Parties have challenged the comprehensive reform measure on Free Speech and Free Association grounds. More specifically, the plaintiffs assert that it "harms individual rights to free political association, so we can get our candidates elected.”  “This lawsuit represents a misguided reb...

Monica Aufrecht, Bainbridge Island

Today’s episode is all about solutions. We talk with Executive Director of the Institute of Political Innovation (IPI), Solomon Lieberman, about what cross-partisan “politics industry theory” reform is, and how it can help us move into a better era of American politics. “Politics industry theory” was first formulated by Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter while they were attempting to pinpoint objective, unbiased reasons why American government was failing. What they found was that our political duopoly (the Republicans and Democrats together) has slowly removed legitimate competition...