Jack Santucci
Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University
Chapter Member: Maryland-Washington, D.C. SSN
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About Jack
Santucci's research focuses on electoral systems, public opinion, and state & local politics. He works frequently with nonprofits and interdisciplinary task forces related to electoral reform and representation. In addition to his position at George Washington University, he also teaches public opinion at NYU Washington, DC.
Contributions
In the News
Opinion: "Portland’s Troubled Proportional Representation Experiment," Jack Santucci, City Journal, October 14, 2025.
Opinion: "Sources of Change: Toward a Different Kind of Party Government — Proportional Representation for Federal Elections," Jack Santucci (with ), Protect Democracy & APSA, October 16, 2023.
Publications
More Parties or No Parties: The Politics of Electoral Reform in America (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Explains how electoral reform happens, analyzes past use of the single transferable vote in the United States, and suggests a workable alternative.
"The Structure of American Political Discontent" (with ). Public Opinion Quarterly 86, no. 2 (2022): 381–392.
Brings the U.S. case into the populism literature and shows that related attitudes were active in both parties in the 2016 election.
"Variants of Ranked-Choice Voting from a Strategic Perspective" Politics and Governance 9, no. 2 (2021): 344-353.
Documents five unique types of ranked-choice voting, how they affect campaign strategy, and how they might affect numerical minorities.