Lee Drutman is a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America. He 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."
He is also a co-founder of Fix Our House (a campaign for proportional representation in the United States), a co-founder of the Center for Ballot Freedom, and a lecturer at The Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies.
He writes the newsletter Undercurrent Events. He has also published numerous pieces in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, FiveThirtyEight, Vox, Politico, NBC Think, Time,, and Foreign Policy, among many other outlets.
He speaks widely on democracy. He has spoken at the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival, The Chautauqua Institution, and the Fall for the Book Festival, among many other events. He often appears as guest on C-Span’s Washington Journal.
He co-hosts the podcast Politics in Question. He has been a guest on many podcasts, including the Ezra Klein Show.
He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. from Brown University.
He was named one of Washington’s Most Influential People by Washingtonian magazine in 2021, 2022 and 2023.