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# Changing the incentives In Our Politics (with John Pudner)
- URL: https://ivn.us/changing-the-incentives-in-our-politics-with-john-pudner/
- Published: 2021-09-02T20:26:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T20:10:10.000Z
- Author: National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers
- Tags: News

A reformed political operative himself, John Pudner founded [Take Back Our Republic](https://takeback.org/?ref=ivn.us) to work on reforming American democracy so that politicians are incentivized by good governance rather than foreign money and by fair representation rather than special interests. We visit with John about his roots as a paperboy in a diverse Richmond neighborhood to an education in journalism and a career in politics, including how he stopped helping candidates win and started creating a system worth winning.