Editor's Note: Institutional Reform Alone Cannot Guarantee Desired Political Outcomes
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Adam Gurri
Summary
This editor's note argues that fixing or redesigning America's political institutions (like gerrymandering through proportional representation) is not enough. True reconstruction must target deeper, more fundamental issues beyond institutional redesign to achieve meaningful political outcomes.
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bskyEditor's Note: Institutional Reform Alone Cannot Guarantee Desired Political Outcomesliberalcurrents.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledReconstruction has to have a deeper target than simply redesigning institutions.
America's institutions are so poorly designed that, should we ever muster the political will, we could pluck a great deal of low-hanging fruit.
Gerrymandering is incredibly easy to solve if one simply adopts proportional representation
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