Former CEO Katherine Gehl, Professor Michael Porter, and Andrew Yang discuss the flaws in the American political system dominated by two parties, the need to break the duopoly for better candidate selection, and potential solutions like nonpartisan primaries and ranked-choice voting to increase competition and representation.

Katherine Gehl, author of The Politics Industry, discusses breaking partisan gridlock and saving democracy. They explore Michael Porter's work, political industry theory, unhelpful activities, the protected duopoly, Alaska's experiment in final-four voting, and more.

Katherine Gehl, founder of The Institute for Political Innovation, discusses Final Five Voting, a system that aims to improve politics by changing incentives for elected officials. The podcast explores the impact of gerrymandering, the rise of independent candidates, and proposes Final Five voting as a solution to interrupt the self-reinforcing nature of the current political climate.

Katherine Gehl, a former CEO and the founder of the Institute for Political Innovation, and Michael Porter, a professor at Harvard Business School, apply his Five Forces framework to explain why U.S. politics are dysfunctional. They argue that the Republican and Democratic parties make up an industry duopoly with high barriers to entry and low consumer power, and that the resulting lack of competition incentivizes these two dominant players to avoid compromises with majority support. Gehl and Porter provide specific innovations on how to enhance competition and better serve the public, including nonpartisan primary elections and ranked-choice voting. Gehl and Porter are coauthors of the new book “The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy” and the HBR article “Fixing U.S. Politics."

As the nation gears up for the 2020 presidential election, we ask: Is the two-party system good for democracy? Does relying on two hugely powerful political bodies drive division and push voters to the extremes? Or does the two-party system moderate the electorate and make the nation governable? Keynote Conversation:Joanne Freeman - Professor of History and American Studies, Yale UniversityFor the Motion:Yascha Mounk - Author, "The People vs. Democracy"Norman Ornstein - Resident Scholar, American Enterprise InstituteAgainst the Motion:Lee Drutman - Author, "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop"Katherine Gehl - Entrepreneur & Political Reformer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices