The Electoral Reform Project

Interactive Representation

The Efficient Frontier

A Classroom Experiment in Legislative Politics

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"The bipartisan system of Congress no longer works. It must be reinvented. New systems, such as interactive representation, do not merely deserve a hearing; they must be actively and quickly tested for the nation to survive."

M. Scott Peck
Author, The Road Less Traveled 
and A World Waiting to Be Born

"The case for instituting this system is compelling… the concept of representation itself must be updated."

Kenneth Dolbeare
Evergreen State College.  
Co-author, USA 2012: After the Middle Class Revolution                                                                       

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"An elegant and powerful argument."

Douglas Bond
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University 

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"Though our representative democracy – with its separate levels and branches of government – is the foundation of our political system, we need to improve the ways in which we use it to resolve public disputes… in particular, we need to find ways of dealing with differences that will restore public confidence among the various segments of our society."

Lawrence Susskind and Jeffrey Cruikshank
Breaking the Impasse
The MIT–Harvard Public Disputes Program