Lee Drutman
Senior Fellow, Political Reform Program
Lee Drutman is a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America, where he focuses on electoral reform, Congress, and democratic health.
Drutman 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.”
Drutman writes the newsletter Undercurrent Events, co-hosts the podcast Politics in Question, and appears regularly on programs from NPR’s Morning Edition to The Ezra Klein Show. In 2026, he was named among The Washington Post’s Next 50, which recognizes 50 people reshaping our society. His work appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, NBC Think, and Vox, among many others.
Drutman holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from Brown University.
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