Jon “Jack” Santucci
jack.santucci@gmail.com
September 23, 2024

Interests• Research: electoral systems, political parties, American political reform.
• Teaching: American national institutions, political institutions, research skills, state & localpolitics.

Academic positions• Professorial Lecturer (part-time), Political Science, The George Washington University, Fall
2024-present.
• Part-time Lecturer, Political Science, New York University (in DC), Fall 2024-present.
• Senior Lecturer (part-time); History, Philosophy, Political Science & Economics; WesternNew England University; Spring 2024-present.
• Substitute Lecturer (full-time), Political Science, Queens College, CUNY, Fall 2023.
• Assistant Teaching Professor, Politics, Drexel University, 2018-23.
• Adjunct Professor, Political Science, James Madison University (in DC), Fall 2018.

Education• Ph.D., Government, Georgetown University, 2010-17.
• M.A. (distinction), Democracy & Governance Studies, Georgetown University, 2007-9.
• B.A. (honors), Political Science, McGill University, 2001-5.

Book• Santucci, Jack. 2022. More Parties or No Parties: The Politics of Electoral Reform inAmerica. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197630655.
001.0001.
– Reviews: Choice, Perspectives on Politics.
– Author-Meets-Critics, Midwest Political Science Association, April 2023.
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Journal articles• Atkeson, Lonna Rae, Eli McKown-Dawson, Jack Santucci, and Kyle L. Saunders. 2024.
“The Impact of Voter Confusion in Ranked Choice Voting.” Social Science Quarterly, earlyversion. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13366.
• Anthony, Joseph, David C. Kimball, Jack Santucci, and Jamil Scott. 2023. “Support forRanked Choice Voting across Party and Race: Results from a National Survey Experiment.” Politics, Groups, and Identities, early version. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.
2023.2248715.
• Santucci, Jack and Joshua J. Dyck. 2022. “The Structure of American Political Discontent” (research note). Public Opinion Quarterly 86 (2): 381-92. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/
nfac009.
• Santucci, Jack. 2021. “Variants of Ranked-choice Voting from a Strategic Perspective.”
Politics and Governance 9 (2): 344-353. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v9i2.3955.
• McCarthy, Devin and Jack Santucci. 2021. “Ranked-choice Voting as a Generational Issue
in Modern American Politics.” Politics & Policy 49 (1): 33-60. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.
12390.
• Santucci, Jack. 2020. “Did the Party System Change from 2012-16?” (research note).
Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, early version. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2020.1794884.
• Santucci, Jack. 2019. “Using Mixed Methods to Recover Electoral History: The American
Path to Proportional Voting.” SAGE Research Methods Cases, Part 2. https://doi.org/10.
4135/9781526462695.
• Santucci, Jack. 2018. “Maine Ranked-choice Voting as a Case of Electoral-system Change.”
Representation 54 (3): 297-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2018.1502208.
• Santucci, Jack. 2018. “Evidence of a Winning-cohesion Tradeoff under Multi-winner Rankedchoice Voting.” Electoral Studies 52: 128-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2017.11.
003.
• Santucci, Jack. 2017. “Party Splits, not Progressives: The Origins of Proportional Representation in American Local Government.” American Politics Research 45 (3): 494-526.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X16674774.
• Santucci, Jack. 2006. “The Missing Half: Ensuring Fair Representation in Post-merger
Essex, Vermont.” National Civic Review 95 (3): 42-50. https://doi.org/10.1002/ncr.148.

Book reviews• Santucci, Jack. 2021. “Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York’s GildedAge. By Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
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240p. $55.00 cloth.” Perspectives on Politics 19 (3): 1013-4. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592721001298.
• 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 34: 596-9.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12587.
• Santucci, Jack. 2020. “Multiparty America?” The Journal of Politics 82 (4): e35-e39.
https://doi.org/10.1086/708937.

Grants (selected)• “East-coast and National Experimental Tests of Candidate Entry under Single-seat Rankedchoice Voting, with Measurement of Attitudes toward Descriptive Representation” ($23,000,with Jamil Scott), New America, 2020.
• “Single Transferable Vote Municipal Analysis” ($25,000, with Michael Latner and Matthew
Shugart), New America, 2020.
• “Analyzing Legislative Voting in Small Councils” ($4,400), Massive Data Institute, McCourt
School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, 2015.

Awards• Hall of Honor for Education, Amity Regional School District No. 5, Connecticut, 2019.
• Best Paper, “Maine Ranked-choice Voting as a Case of Electoral-system Change,” Representation, 2018.
• Jill Hopper Memorial Fellowship (to teach Urban Politics), Department of Government,
Georgetown University, 2015-16.

Teaching
The George Washington University• PSC 2220 Public Opinion (1 section synchronous)• PSC 2211 State and Urban Politics (1 section synchronous forthcoming)
New York University (in Washington, DC)• POL-UA 9342 American Public Opinion & Pressure Groups (1 section synchronous)

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Western New England University• POSC 102 American National Government (2 sections synchronous, 1 asynchronous forthcoming)• POSC 390 Comparative Political Reform (1 section asychronous forthcoming)
Queens College, CUNY
• PSCI 101 Introduction to Political Science (1 section synchronous)• PSCI 210 American State & Local Government (1 section synchronous)
Drexel University• PSCI 100 Introduction to Political Science (4 sections synchronous, 2 asynchronous)• PSCI 110 American Government (10 sections synchronous, 15 asynchronous)• PSCI 131 Research Design for Political Science (2 sections synchronous)• PSCI 231 Qualitative & Mixed-method Research in Political Science (2 sections synchronous)• PSCI 232 Quantitative Research Methods in Political Science (1 section synchronous)• PSCI 240 Comparative Politics II: Political Institutions (4 sections synchronous)• PSCI 260 Social Movements in Comparative Perspective (1 section synchronous)• PSCI T280 Data Analysis for Activists (1 section synchronous)• PSCI 313 State & Local Government (1 section synchronous)• PSCI 320 The United States Congress (1 section synchronous)• PSCI 372 The City in American Political Development (1 section synchronous)• PSCI T380 Parties & Elections (2 sections synchronous)
James Madison University (in Washington, DC)• POSC 351W The Current Crisis in American Party Politics (1 section synchronous)
Georgetown University• XSPP 02 American Economics & Business (3 sections synchronous, high school)• GOVT 020 United States Political Systems (3 sections synchronous)• GOVT 121 Comparative Political Systems (1 section synchronous)• GOVT 303-2 Urban Politics (1 section synchronous)
4Undergraduate mentoring• Ciara Richards, Drexel University, AY 2022-23. Thesis, electoral reform in devolved nationsof the United Kingdom.
• Steven White, Drexel University, Fall 2021. Research co-op, ranked-choice voting adoption/repeal.
• Medina Talebi, Drexel University, Spring 2021. Research co-op, descriptive representationin global cities, joint supervision with Michael Latner.
• Devon Rutledge, Drexel University, Summer 2020. Research co-op, survey sampling fromvoter file, joint supervision with Jamil Scott.
• Andrew Rosenthal, Drexel University, Summer 2020. Research co-op, archival research onstate and local electoral reform.
• Lev Boonin, Drexel University, Fall 2019. Independent study, U.S. Congressional apportionment.

Service to the university• Organizer and moderator, Panel on election integrity, Queens College, November 15, 2023.
• Member, Communications Committee, Political Science Department, Queens College, 202324.
• Member, Strategic Staffing Initiative Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University, 2023.
• Coordinator, Collaborative Pennsylvania Exit Poll, Drexel University, 2022.
• Faculty Marshal, College of Arts and Sciences Commencement, Drexel University, 2022.
• Member, Awards Committee, Politics Department, Drexel University, 2022.
• Member, Search Committee in American Politics (non-tenure-track), Drexel University, 2021.
• Member, Truman Scholarship Selection Committee, Drexel University, 2020.
• Member; Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Politics Department; Drexel University; 2020-21.
• Moderator, Panel discussion on the Electoral College, Pennoni Honors College, Drexel University, October 29, 2020.
• Coordinator, Pennsylvania Statewide Redistricting Town Hall, Drexel University, February
21, 2019.

5• Interviewed by: Democracy Works (Penn State); Fox News; Go Green 2026 (Andy Ellis);
Gray TV (DC); KYW In Depth (WKYW-FM); NBC 4 Washington (WRC-TV); On the Ballot(Ballotpedia); Politics in Question (New America/R Street); Rules of the Game (StephanKyburz); Studio2 (WHYY-FM); The Science of Politics (Niskanen Center); The Tally Room(Ben Raue); Tatter (Michael Sargent); Top of Mind (KBYU-FM).
• Quoted by: Alaska Public Media; Billy Penn; Bolts; City & State NY; Crosscut (KCTS-TV);
Denver7 360 (KMGH-TV); Governing (1, 2); Puck News; Rose City Reform; The Christian
Science Monitor; The Boston Globe; The Economist; The New York Times; The Oregonian(1, 2); The Philadelphia Citizen; The Portland Press Herald (1, 2, 3); The Triangle (Drexel);
The Washington Post; Times West Virginian; U.S. News & World Report; Vox; Willamette
Week (1, 2).

Service to the discipline• Division co-chair (with Heather Stoll), Section on Representation & Electoral Systems,
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2021.
• Co-organizer (with Mara Suttmann-Lea), Election Sciences Conference Within a Conference, Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2021.
• Panel chair/discussant: American Political Science Association (2017, 2020, 2022-23); Midwest Political Science Association (2018-19, 2023); Pi Sigma Alpha National Student Conference (2014-17); Southern Political Science Association (2020-21).
• Reviewer (journals): American Journal of Political Science; American Political Science Review; American Politics Research; Asian Journal of Political Science; British Journal of
Political Science; Cogent Social Sciences; Commonwealth: A Journal of Pennsylvania Politics and Policy; Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation; Election Law
Journal; Electoral Studies; Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal; IEEE
Transactions on Computational Social Systems; Illinois Municipal Policy Journal; Journalof Elections, Public Opinion & Parties; Journal of Theoretical Politics; Network Science;
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Party Politics; Perspectives onPolitics; PLOS One; PNAS Nexus; Political Analysis; Political Behavior; Political Research
Quarterly; Political Science Research and Methods; Politics & Policy; Politics and Governance; Public Opinion Quarterly; Representation; Research & Politics; Social ScienceQuarterly; State Politics & Policy Quarterly; The Forum; The Journal of Politics.
More information: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/rid/O-6338-2017.
• Reviewer (books/proposals): CQ Press; Oxford University Press; Palgrave Macmillan.
• Reference list on ranked-choice voting, 2018-present. https://bit.ly/rcvacademic.

Conference presentations• American Political Science Association (2015-23).
6• Midwest Political Science Association (2015-16, 2018-19, 2022-23).
• Society for Political Methodology (2015).
• Southern Political Science Association (2013-14, 2016-17, 2019-20).
• State Politics and Policy Conference (2017-18).

Public-facing writing (selected)• “Avoiding the PR Mistakes of the Past.” Democracy Journal, Fall 2023. https://bit.ly/partylist2023.
• “Toward a Different Type of Party Government: Proportional Representation for Federal
Elections” in More than Red and Blue: Political Parties and American Democracy. American Political Science Association/Protect Democracy, July 2023. With Matthew Shugart
and Michael S. Latner. https://apsanet.org/political-parties-report.
• “There’s a better way to run city elections — and it’s native to Philadelphia.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 6, 2021. https://bit.ly/47v4Xqh.
• “Utah’s new kind of ranked-choice voting could hurt political minorities — and sometimes
even the majority.” LSE’s American Politics & Policy, January 23, 2020. With Benjamin
Reilly. http://bit.ly/37l3tAR.
• “Factional voting in local elections: The case of Cambridge, MA.” Urban Affairs Forum,
February 7, 2019. https://tinyurl.com/2p7zdezt.
• Santucci, Jack. 2016. “Past experience shows that proportional representation is possible
in the US, but there are tradeoffs.” LSE’s American Politics & Policy, December 20. http://bit.ly/2hzDaBE.

Other presentations• “Can Electoral-system Reform Help Solve Metropolitan Problems?” Brookings Institution,August 28, 2024.
• “Third Party Possibilities in the American Political Landscape: Conversations on Controversial Issues” (with Andy Craig, moderated by Clay Jenkinson), Vail Symposium, June 18,2024.
• “Ranked-choice Voting for Busy People, with a Word of Caution,” How Philadelphia Elects
its Mayor Conference, University of Pennsylvania, November 17, 2023.
• “Why Party-list?” Race and Electoral Systems Reform Conference, Houston Institute forRace and Justice, Harvard Law School, September 22, 2023.

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• “How and Why Electoral Reforms Get Adopted and Repealed,” Electoral Innovation Lab,Princeton University, June 19, 2023.
• “Learning From the Repeal of the Single Transferable Vote in U.S. Cities,” Beyond Winnertake-all Conference, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University, February 8, 2023.
• “More Parties or No Parties: The Politics of Electoral Reform in America,” Inequality andPolicy Research Center, Claremont Graduate University, February 16, 2022.
• “Block-preferential and ‘Final Five’ Voting,” Ranked Choice Voting for Colorado, August 19
and 26, 2021.
• “Getting Rid of the Parties vs. Having More Parties,” Independent Pennsylvanians, June 13,2021.
• “Is Ranked Choice Voting Good for DC?” District of Columbia Democratic Party, January 7,2021.
• “Breaking Polarization: The Promise and Perils of Election Reform” (with Lee Drutman),
Drexel University, October 27, 2020.
• “Long-term Issues with Voting Rights in the United States,” University of Miami (POL 401,Prof. Joe Uscinski), October 12, 2020.
• “Communicating Research to the Public,” Midwest Political Science Association AnnualMeeting, April 2020.
• Panel discussion on charter reform, City Club of Portland (OR), July 18, 2019.
• “What History Can Teach Us About the Prospects for Ranked-choice and Proportional Voting,” The College of New Jersey, March 8, 2019.
• “Why Does America Have Only Two Parties?” International Republican Institute, November
3, 2017.
• “History of Ranked-choice Voting in the United States” (webinar), RCV Resource Center,
September 8, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IjZB7V84kU.

Non-academic research positions• Research Fellow, Democracy Fund, 2017-18. Analyze Cooperative Election Study (formerly CCES) data for Elections Team.
• Research Associate, International Foundation for Electoral Systems, 2008-10. Redesign
ElectionGuide.org and align classification of electoral systems with scholarly typologies.
• Intern (paid), Campaign Finance Institute, Summer 2008. Compile disclosure data andproofread book chapters.

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