The Jan. 6 breach and riot at the U.S. Capitol, and the larger effort to overturn the results of the election, have brought new attention to the larger need for political reform — fixing the bugs in the system of democracy, to use a metaphor offered by Jon DeVaan, the former Microsoft engineering leader.

DeVaan has become deeply involved in the political reform movementsince retiring from Microsoft in 2013after 30 years at the company. He’s on the board of代表我们, a bipartisan organization seeking to end corruption in politics.
最近几周,他还担任了一个非正式的监察员,对微软作为公司通过其政治捐赠导航争议前announcing last week它不会在2022年选举周期内捐赠给国会和其他支持努力推翻选举的政治领导人。
Devaan加入了我的同事John Cook和Me作为嘉宾,在本周的Geekwire播客,讨论了过去一个月的活动,政治改革的道路,以及技术公司和其他企业可以在运动中发挥的作用。万博世界杯官网下面,他分享了推荐的书籍,文章和其他资源,以了解他对这些问题的理解。manbetx客户端1.0下载
倾听以下或订阅任何播客应用程序的Geekwire。
Jon DeVaan:我很高兴与托德和约翰谈论播客中的民主改革。狗万平台我提到了许多对想要学习更多并参与运动的人有趣的参考。我列出了我认为是民主改革的伟大兴趣的人。
重要文章
- The first isa study done at Princetonabout how citizens have nearly zero impact on public policy.
- The second is哈佛商学院分析“政治产业”及其对经济竞争力的不良影响:
- 经济学家的民主排名(美国的民主评级超过十多年来):民主指数2020 - 经济学家智力单位(EIU.com)
重要的书
- 黑钱由Jane Mayer - 本书概述了销售现代保守运动的政治动态和货币策略。
- How Democracies Dieby Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt: Why everyone should be afraid of where the USA is right now.
- 保守党和民主的诞生by Daniel Ziblatt: Why reform of the GOP is urgently needed (or a new center right party)
- On Democracy通过罗伯特A DAHL - 这是一本学术书籍,但是对民主(以各种形式的真正自我政府)的最佳解释以及为什么它是迄今为止所知的最佳政府形式。这是我对善民主改革的原因的哲学圣经。
Movies – Not all of us have time to read books!
- 黑钱(与这本书无关):深入潜入金钱的腐败影响力
- Slay the Dragon:为什么Gerrymandering也很糟糕,怎么打它。
- Eastpointe: How ranked choice voting helps create better representation.
国家团体:
- RepresentUs: Champions local and state laws that make the political system work for regular people
- Unite America:欧洲冠军地方和州法律强调独立和改革思想政治领导人
- FairVote: Champions ranked choice voting nationwide
- InstareOne.:国会冠军民主改革
- ProtectDemocracy: Champions accountability and prevention of presidential power
- 现在的领导力项目: Building a coalition of businesses to champion reform
Groups in WA:
Twitter - 遵循这些人和小组获得透视
[编者注:Devaan的Microsoft Tenure持续时间自发表以来纠正。]