Over 55 professors, academics, researchers and election law experts across Massachusetts have officially endorsed Question 2.
For Immediate Release
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Boston, Mass. – September 29, 2020 – The Yes on 2 campaign is proud to announce its growing list of over 55 professors, academics, researchers and election law experts in Massachusetts who have endorsed Question 2.
“I cannot think of a democratic reform that is more important,” said Nobel Laureate and Harvard University Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Eric Maskin. “Ranked-choice voting better reflects voter preferences — it is more democratic — than the method currently used in Massachusetts and 48 other states. That’s why I want to see our state adopt it.”
* Ranked Choice Voting is Simple, Fair and Popular. Voters in more than 20 states use ranked choice voting in elections and evidence shows that voters like ranked choice voting in overwhelming numbers.
* Ranked Choice Voting is Constitutional. Over and over again, RCV has been found to be constitutional under the US Constitution and the Massachusetts constitution.
* Ranked Choice Voting Works. More than 100 years of experience around the world, and peer-reviewed studies show that ranked choice voting increases voter turnout, builds consensus, increases representation of women and minority groups in government, and makes government more accountable to the broad majority of voters.
The following professors, academics, researchers and election law experts have endorsed Question 2
Daron Acemoglu
Institute Professor, MIT
Danielle Allen
James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University
Douglas J. Amy
Professor Emeritus of Politics, Mount Holyoke College
Andy Anderson
Academic Technology Specialist for Mathematical and Spatial Data Analysis, Amherst College
M.V. Lee Badgett
Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
John C. Berg
Professor Emeritus of Government, Suffolk University
Robert G. Boatright
Professor and Chair of Political Science, Clark University
Colin Brown
Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University
Marissa Carrere
Lecturer of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
Rachael Cobb
Associate Professor of Political Science & Legal Studies, Suffolk University
Matthew Cohen
Assistant Professor of Practice, Merrimack College
Gene Corbin
Graduate Research Fellow of Higher Education, UMass Boston
Silvia Dominguez
Associate Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
Stephen Ellenburg
Professor Emeritus of Politics, Mount Holyoke College
Peter Enrich
Professor of Law Emeritus, Northeastern School of Law
James Feigenbaum
Assistant Professor of Economics, Boston University
Gerald Friedman
Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
Adam Gismondi
Director of Impact, Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, Tufts University
Justin Gross
Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Amherst
Heather C. Hill
Jerome T. Murphy Professor in Education, Harvard University
Adam Hilton
Assistant Professor of Politics, Mount Holyoke College
William Jackson
Associate Professor of Mathematics, North Shore Community College
Luis F. Jimenez
Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Boston
Dan Kennedy
Associate Professor, Northeastern University
Alex Keyssar
Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy, Harvard University
Erin Kiley
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, MCLA
David C. King
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard University
Christina Kulich-Vamvakas
Instructor of Political Science & Legal Studies, Suffolk University
Kevin Lee
PhD Candidate in Urban Planning and Sociology, MIT
Lawrence Lessig
Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard University
Arthur MacEwan
Professor Emeritus of Economics, UMass Boston
Jane Mansbridge
Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard University
James Mahon
Woodrow Wilson Professor of Political Science, Williams College
Cathie Jo Martin
Professor of Political Science, Boston University
Eric S. Maskin
Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics and Nobel Laureate, Harvard University
Lauren McCarthy
Director of Legal Studies and Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
Linda B. Miller
Professor of Political Science Emerita, Wellesley College
Jeffrey Moyer
PhD Candidate in Public Policy, UMass Boston
Rosalyn Negrón
Associate Professor of Anthropology, UMass Boston
Erin O’Brien
Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Boston
Dietmar Offenhuber
Associate Professor in Art + Design and Public Policy, Northeastern University
Robert Pollin
Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute, UMass Amherst
Michael Porter
Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard University
Robert D. Putnam
Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
Benjamin Railton
Professor of English and American Studies, Fitchburg State University
Miles Rapoport
Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy, Harvard University
Nancy Rosenblum
Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Harvard University
Aaron Rosenthal
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Simmons College
Jack Schneider
Assistant Professor of Leadership in Education, UMass Lowell
Brendan Sullivan
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Emmanuel College
Lawrence Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
Nancy Thomas
Director, Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, Tufts University
M. Gabriela Torres
Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Wheaton College
Ismar Volić
Director, Institute for Mathematics and Democracy, Wellesley College
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About the Yes on 2 Campaign
Yes On 2 is a citizen-led, nonpartisan campaign to adopt Ranked Choice Voting for Massachusetts elections starting in 2022. Ranked Choice Voting is a common-sense reform that gives voters more voice, more choice, more power and more freedom. It will strengthen our democracy by ensuring our leaders are supported by the broadest majority of voters and reflect the true will of the people.
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