Lee Drutman is a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America. He is the author of Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America (Oxford University Press, 2020) and The Business of America is Lobbying (Oxford University Press, 2015), winner of the 2016 American Political Science Association's Robert A. Dahl Award, given for "scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy." He is a co-founder of Fix Our House (a campaign for proportional representation in the United States), co-host of the podcast Politics in Question, and a lecturer at The Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies.

Drutman writes the newsletter Undercurrent Events. He has also published numerous pieces in The New York Times, Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, Vox, NBC Think, and Foreign Policy, among other outlets. He was named one of Washington’s Most Influential People by Washingtonian Magazine in 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Drutman holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. from Brown University.

A small reception will follow the presentation with a book signing courtesy of Labyrinth Books, featuring Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop.

Watch a recording of this event here.