Cynthia Richie Terrell is the founder and executive director of RepresentWomen. We discuss institutional reforms that can reduce the barriers for women to run, win, and govern.
There are approximately 520,000 elected office holders in the U.S., but incumbency is the biggest barrier to electing more women. Term limits make more seats open to competition. In addition, ranked choice voting eliminates vote splitting if there is more than one woman on the ballot. In NYC, for example, the combination of term limits and ranked choice voting has resulted in a city council where 61% of the seats are held by women. Policy solutions that address the structural barriers do work.
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Credits:
Host: Mila Atmos
Guests: Cynthia Richie Terrell
Executive Producer: Mila Atmos
Producer: Zack Travis
October Surprise: Devlin Barrett
Building Authoritarian Power: Nathan Stoltzfus
Building Power Online: Alice Marwick
Digital Labor Organizing: Jess Kutch
Civics Club: Adam Cohen
Supreme Inequality: Adam Cohen
Decolonizing America: Nick Tilsen
Building Civic Power: K. Sabeel Rahman
State Capture: Alex Hertel-Fernandez
Organized Power: Theda Skocpol and Caroline Tervo
Energizing Local Politics: Drew Kromer
Politics is for Power: Eitan D. Hersh
Introducing the Future Hindsight Civics Club
Sexual Citizens: Jennifer S. Hirsch & Shamus Khan
Surveillance Capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff
Canvassing with Love: David Fleischer
Deconstructing the Alt-Right: Alexandra Minna Stern
The Roots of Conservative Media: Nicole Hemmer
Political Communication Ethics: Peter Loge
Fact-Checking for Truth: Jon Z. Greenberg
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