Yes on 2 Releases List of Massachusetts Academic and Legal Supporters

Over 55 professors, academics, researchers and election law experts across Massachusetts have officially endorsed Question 2.

For Immediate Release 

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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