Alex Keyssar

Professor @Harvard Kennedy School. Author of The Right to Vote: the Contested History of Democracy in the U.S. and Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

[Harvard Kennedy School @Kennedy_School]

.@AlexKeyssar says the first few weeks of the Trump administration may constitute the most severe attack on the rule of law in the U.S. since the Civil War.

Read more about Professor Keyssar's thoughts ➡️ https://t.co/PrBm2nZmAn

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

@ChrisMurphyCT Thanks for offering these thoughts. Totally agree about breaking with neoliberalism -- but replacing it with what? It might also be helpful if you defined the "populism" you want to embrace. We need a clearer picture of the future we want to build. Good luck to us all.

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

Looking at exit polls and wondering if "non-college" is actually a good proxy for "working class." Anyone have any thoughts (or information!) on this?

[@GravityFMpod @GravityFMpod]

NEW:📣 Democracy remains an unfinished project. Ahead of the US election, our new episode with @Harvard Professor @AlexKeyssar is a must-listen to see what's at stake and how to protect the right to vote: https://t.co/A5GYQnvjYf

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

Given Trump's increasingly evident deterioration, shouldn't more attention be focused on the likelihood that a Trump victory would mean that JD Vance will soon become president? How scary is that?

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

@StephenBowlby @CNN A good question. I think I've seen this movie before. . .

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

@JRakove The traditional claim is that the EC helps small states by giving them more electoral votes per capita. But it's a tiny advantage. Historically, many key leaders of the movement to abolish the EC came from small states and in Congress many small states voted to end the EC.

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

Enjoyable conversation about the Electoral College with Jake Suggs at American History Gazette. https://t.co/EJQ5fcrfOb

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

@KeriLeighMerrit @benmschneider @gabrielwinant @lawcha_org @ILWCHJournal I don't have an email address for him; he was at the University of Akron but that was quite some time ago..

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

You are asking for alot, my good friend and colleague. If they can match half of those features, it will be remarkable -- and promising.

[Archon Fung @Arfung]

In part, this is the test of the democratic (small-d) innovation skills of the DNC - can they craft a process that is legitimate, compelling, inclusive, participatory, and wise - to select the Democratic candidate - RCV? Citizen Assemblies? Public deliberation?

[Archon Fung @Arfung]

In part, this is the test of the democratic (small-d) innovation skills of the DNC - can they craft a process that is legitimate, compelling, inclusive, participatory, and wise - to select the Democratic candidate - RCV? Citizen Assemblies? Public deliberation?

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

The French elections offer food for thought for us in the U.S. Their two-round majoritarian system not only produced a different outcome than the first round; it generated extraordinary, energetic political mobilization and popular engagement between the two rounds. Hmmm.

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

Has there ever been a US president who complained that he could not do his job effectively because he feared criminal prosecution? Yet the Scotus majority believes the danger of that occurring outweighs the danger of allowing a chief executive to commit criminal acts. Weird.

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

A fine conversation with an exceptionally well informed interviewer!

[Harvard Ash Center @HarvardAsh]

On the latest episode of the @DemParadox podcast, @AlexKeyssar discusses the history of the Electoral College, the different attempts to reform it and why those measures failed, and what it might take for a reform to finally succeed

🎧 Listen here ⤵️
https://t.co/M7X0iIGZDE

[Jack Rakove @JRakove]

This is a great piece, notably relying on the epic if somewhat Sisyphean work, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? by @AlexKeyssar .

https://t.co/zVwN6DqGXD

[T.M. Wolf @tomTMwolf]

On the brief, historians @earlymodjustice @rzhist @JRakove @TheGNapp @Jane_C_Manners @gauthamrao @AlexKeyssar @jbf1755 Saul Cornell, Jane Calvert, David Konig, Jill Lepore, Peter Onuf, Michael Ross, and Alan Taylor.

The lawyers: Friedman Kaplan LLP and @BrennanCenter.

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

We have our work cut out for us. . ..

[T.M. Wolf @tomTMwolf]

@BrennanCenter The council's 18 members include @earlymodjustice @TheGNapp @AlexKeyssar @Jane_C_Manners @katemasur @JRakove @gauthamrao @narosenblum @rachelshelden @JTuckerHistory @rzhist and more. To learn more about council members: https://t.co/jW7gMKD5vM

[T.M. Wolf @tomTMwolf]

@BrennanCenter The council's 18 members include @earlymodjustice @TheGNapp @AlexKeyssar @Jane_C_Manners @katemasur @JRakove @gauthamrao @narosenblum @rachelshelden @JTuckerHistory @rzhist and more. To learn more about council members: https://t.co/jW7gMKD5vM

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

@ProfessorGriggs Thank you.