Judging from the views of my respected co-authors in this report, American democracy stands indicted for its performance in November’s election. Yet in several important respects, the system performed better in 2004 than it has in years. That’s not easy for me to say after such a disheartening election day. But you cannot measure the […]
Burt Neuborne
Burt Neuborne is the John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law and legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.
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Reclaiming Democracy
The debacle of the 2000 presidential election made it clear that we are operating a badly frayed nineteenth-century democracy in twenty-first-century America. Voter participation is shockingly low and declining each year. At best only one-half the eligible electorate actually votes in a presidential election. Turnout for Senate and House elections in nonpresidential years rarely exceeds […]