Dr. Gerken speaking at the Brookings Institute on April 7, 2009
She wants to create a democracy index to rank states on voting and election details. She explains that the international environmental index permitted a ranking that embarrassed the last place into action and inspired the number two to work to be number 1. By ranking we can easily see a mess of complicated concerns and have a definitive action we can demand our politicians take, bring us higher on the rank.
"The democracy index would help harness partisan
incentives and local competition in the service of reform because right now
voters don't even see the problem, and even when they think that there is
a problem, they have no metric for refereeing the inevitable fights that take
place between reforms and election officials because those fights involve
details about counting ballots and jargon-filled evaluations of election
machinery and nitty-gritty registration requirements." Dr. Gerken
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