
Lisa Disch
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Disch’s research focuses on citizen participation, equal representation, and the prospects for popular mobilization around majority interests in an era when growing wealth disparities translate into political inequality. She has explored the constraints that two-party politics in the U.S. puts on democratic representation, and critically examined the truism that “a third political party vote is a wasted vote.” This work grew out of her civic involvement in the early to mid-1990s with the New Party, an alternative party with branches in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New York. Her current research explores how representative the U.S. system is of the many different groups that make up this society, and how its different features help some groups mobilize and be politically influential, while marginalizing others