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Heather Gerken

Heather Gerken is a professor of law at Yale Law School.

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Six Ways to Reform Democracy

Creating a more productive politics for the future.
Luis Ricardo Fraga, Archon Fung, Heather Gerken, Samuel Issacharoff, Pamela S. Karlan, Alex Keyssar

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Response: Bigger Issues

In the wake of the 2000 election, efforts to reform our voting system have proliferated. Commissions, think tanks, and universities across the country are considering the problems highlighted by the astonishingly close...
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