Jack Santucci • Research

Book

Santucci, Jack. 2022. More Parties or No Parties: The Politics of Electoral Reform in America. New York: Oxford University Press. [Data. I will be adding more during Summer 2023.]

Journal articles

Santucci, Jack and Joshua J. Dyck. 2022. "The Structure of American Political Discontent" (research note). Public Opinion Quarterly 86 (2): 381-392.
Santucci, Jack. 2021. "Variants of Ranked-choice Voting from a Strategic Perspective." Politics and Governance 9 (2): 344-353. — Documents five 'types' of ranked-choice voting, their effects on numerical minorities, and some reasons for their repeal in American history.
McCarthy, Devin and Jack Santucci. 2021. "Ranked-choice Voting as a Generational Issue in Modern American Politics." Politics and Policy 49 (1): 33-60. — Generational split on ranked-ballot reforms cuts across major-party and racial divides. Data from 2016 to 2018.
Santucci, Jack. 2020. "Did the Party System Change from 2012-2016?" (research note). Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, early version. [Replication] — Some evidence that party-switching increased intraparty divisions on issues of redistribution.
Santucci, Jack. 2019. "Using Mixed Methods to Recover Electoral History: The American Path to Proportional Voting." SAGE Research Methods Cases (Part 2). — Tips on doing quantitative research on historic, local-level electoral reforms.
Santucci, Jack. 2018. "Maine Ranked-choice Voting as a Case of Electoral System Change." Representation 54 (3): 297-311. Awarded best paper for 2018. [Ungated] — The Alternative Vote finds favor where the majority cannot coordinate but shares an opponent.
Santucci, Jack. 2018. "Evidence of a Winning-cohesion Tradeoff under Multi-winner Ranked-choice Voting." Electoral Studies 52: 128-138. [Ungated] — Majority-seeking parties in nonpartisan STV elections have an incentive to incorporate independent candidates.
Santucci, Jack. 2017. "Party Splits, not Progressives: The Origins of Proportional Representation in American Local Government." American Politics Research 45 (3): 494-526. — It takes a majority to pass nonpartisan STV at referendum. Historically, such majorities included ruling-party defectors and one or more minority parties.

Book reviews

Santucci, Jack. 2021. "Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York’s Gilded Age. By Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 240p. $55.00 cloth.'' Perspectives on Politics.
Santucci, Jack. 2021. "The politics industry: How political innovation can break partisan gridlock and save our democracy. Gehl, Katherine M. and Porter, Michael E. Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA, 2020. 316 pp. $30.00 (cloth)." Governance, early version. [Ungated]
Santucci, Jack. 2020. "Multiparty America?" The Journal of Politics 82 (4): e35-e39. [Ungated] — Electoral reform is coalition reshuffling, begins with the choice of reform partners, and, historically in the United States, has curtailed rights instead of expanding voting.

Policy articles

Santucci, Jack. 2010. "What is the Future for Democracy Promotion?" Democracy & Society 7 (1): 5-7. — International democracy promotion depends on easy reform targets, which are disappearing.
Santucci, Jack and Magnus Öhman. 2009. "Practical solutions for the disclosure of campaign and political party finance." In Political Finance Regulation: The Global Experience, edited by Magnus Öhman and Hani Zainulbhai, 25-42. Washington, DC: International Foundation for Electoral Systems. — Campaign finance disclosure legislation must take account of local conditions, including unintended consequences.
Santucci, Jack. 2006. "The Missing Half: Ensuring Fair Representation in Post-merger Essex, Vermont." National Civic Review 95 (3): 42-50. — There are ways to promote minority representation without moving to single-seat districts.