Center for Voting and Democracy

Endorsers of
proportional representation

August 13, 2001

The following organizations and individuals have endorsed the statement

"We support forms of proportional representation as better methods of electing legislative bodies than winner-take-all elections."

If you would like to endorse this statement, please send your name, the statement you are endorsing, how you would like to be identified, and if any organizational affiliation is for identification purposes only to [email protected].

Organizations

Individuals

Douglas Amy, Professor of Politics, Mount Holyoke College
Theodore S. Arrington, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Kathleen Barber, Professor Emerita, John Carroll University and former chair, Cuyahoga County charter commission
Harriet S. Barlow, Director, HKH Foundation
Ezra Basom, Political Consultant, Seattle, Washington
Michael Baum, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth*
Ted Becker, Alumni Professor of Political Science, Auburn University
Medea Benjamin, Founding Director, Global Exchange
Ken Bresler, columnist and former Massachusetts state legislative candidate
John C. Brittain, Dean, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, TexasSouthern University*
Rufus Browning, Professor of Political Science and Director Emeritus, Public Research Institute, San Francisco State University*
John Burbank, Economic Opportunity Institute*
Dennis Burke, Writer and former executive director, Arizona Common Cause
Ed Burns, San Francisco
Dan Cantor, Executive Director, Working Families Party*
Jules Cazedessus, Producer/Writer, New York, New York
Steve Cheifetz, Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust*
Guy Chichester, Green Party of New Hampshire
Steve Cobble, Former Political Director, National Rainbow Coalition
Jeff Cohen, Author and Media Critic
Robert E. Creager, Chairman, Maryland Initiative and Fair Ballot Access Committee
Derek Cressman, Democracy Program Director, National Association of State PIRGs
Ron Daniels, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
William B. Dale and Joy I. Dale, Maryland
Richard DeLeon, Department of Political Science, San Francisco State University*
Lisa Disch, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Don Doumakes, National Co-Chair, Socialist Party USA
Ronnie Dugger, Founder and First Co-Chair, Alliance for Democracy
David Eliscu, Western Connecticut Green Party
Dave Enrich, Citizens for True Democracy
Hugh Esco, Secretary, Georgia Green Party*
Ralph Estes, Center for Advancement of Public Policy
Frances Fox-Piven, Graduate Center, City University of New York*
Mark Friedman, El Cerrito City Council
John Gibson, Common Bonds*
James Gilmour, Edinburgh, Scotland
John Glasel, Past President, American Federation of Musicians� Local 802 (NYC)*
Ted Glick, Independent Progressive Politics Network
Bill Gram-Reefer, Worldview
Dr. William Grover, Chair, Political Science Department at St. Michael's College
Lani Guinier, Professor, Harvard Law School
Doris �Granny D� Haddock
Dan Hamburg, Former U.S. Congressman and Executive Director, Voice of the Environment*
Howie Hawkins, Green Party, Syracuse, New York
Ronald Hayduk, Assistant Professor of Political Science, City University of New York
Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor, The New Yorker
Jim Hoaglund, VoterMarch*
Gerald Horne, Attorney, Author and Activist
Evelyn Jerome, past president, Los Angeles County Young Democrats
Neal Jesse, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Bowling Green State University*
Douglas Johnson, Riverside, California
Robert Johnston, Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University*
Mark P. Jones, Associate Professor, Michigan State University
Thomas W. Jones
Sheila Jordan, Alameda County Superintendent of Schools, Hayward, California
David Kairys, Professor of Law, Temple University*
David Dyssegaard Kallick, Former Social Policy editor and contributor to The Nation, ITT, Utne Reader
Randy Kehler, Alliance for Democracy*
Alex Keyssar, Professor of History, Duke University*
Jerry Arthur Knight, Judge Hubert L. Will Chapter, American Veterans Committee
David C. Korten, Author of When Corporations Rule the World
Saul Landau, Institute for Policy Studies*
Robert H. Lavitt, Voting Rights Activist and Attorney at Law, Seattle, WashingtonAndrew Lawrence, New York, New York
Kay Lawson, Professor Emeritus, San Francisco State University
David Lawrence, Professorof Political Science, Fordham University
Daniel Lazare, Journalist and Author of The Frozen Republic (1996)
Arend Lijphart, Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of California, San Diego*
Philip Macklin, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Miami University* / Chair, Governance Committee of Oxford, Ohio League of Women Voters*
Robin L. Magee, Telluride, Colorado
Robert McKay, San Francisco
Kevin McKeown, City Councilmember, Santa Monica, California
Jack Metzel, Issuesprocon.org
David F. Metzger, Faculty Emeritus, Indiana University School of Social Work
Michael Morrill, Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network
Dr. Ted Mosch, Department of Management, Marketing, and Political Science, College of Business and Public Affairs, University of Tennessee-Martin
Jon Moscow, Co-Director, Amber Charter School, New York City
Steven Mulroy, University of Memphis Law School
Jason Murphy, Saint Louis, Missouri
Phil Tajitsu Nash, Asian American Studies Program, University of Maryland*
Krist Novoselic, President, JAMPAC, Washington state
Howard A. Pellett, Skagit County, Washington
William Peltz, Capital District Labor-Religion Coalition, Albany, New York*
Joseph G. Peschek, Political Science, Hamline University
George Pillsbury, Bostonvote*
Lewis Pitts, Director, Advocates for Children's Services, Legal Services of North Carolina*
John Rapp, Professor of Political Science, Beloit College*
Scott Rasmussen, Independent Public Opinion Analyst
Willie Ratcliff, Publisher, San Francisco Bay View newspaper
John Rensenbrink, Founder Maine Green Independent Party; Author: Against All Odds: the Green Transformation of American Politics (Leopold Press, 1999)
Richard Rider, President, Economy Telcom*
Joel Rogers, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Juan C. Ros, Executive Director, Libertarian Party of California*
Marta Russell, author, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Ryder, Ohio Citizen Action*
Donald Shaffer, Member and Board of Directors, NYCLU*; Co-Chair, New Politics Club of Long Island*
Matthew Shugart, Professor of Political Science, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego
Micah Sifry, Senior Analyst, Public Campaign*; Author: Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America (Routledge, 2002)
Les Simon, Author
Matthew Singer, Youth Governor 2000-2001, Montana YMCA Youth and Government
James R. Simmons, Chair, Political Science Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh*
Bill Smaldone, City Councilor, Salem, Oregon
Sam Smith, Editor, The Progressive Review
Tony Solgard, Chair, FairVote Minnesota
Bill Spelman, Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas; and former member, Austin City Council
Jean Stein, editor, Grand Street Magazine*
David Stern, Stern Family Fund
Edward Still, Voting and Elections Attorney, Washington, DC
Rein Taagepera, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of California, Irvine
Nicolaus Tideman, Professor of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University*
Angel A. Torres, Member, IPPN National Steering Committee*
Michael Twombly, Executive Director, Northwest Democracy Institute
Father Benjamin J. Urmston, S.J., Director Peace and Justice Programs, Xavier University
Dr. Gerald R. Webster, Professor of Geography, University of Alabama*
Leonard Williams, Department of History and Political Science, Manchester College
Robert Winters, Harvard University Department of Mathematics*
David Zavon, political fairness activist, Cinncinnati
Joseph Zimmerman, Professor of Political Science, Rockefeller College, State University of New York at Albany
Representative David Zuckerman, Vermont State House

*Organization is for identification purposes only

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