Why do we still have the electoral college? /

"The author of the Pulitzer finalist The Right to Vote explains the enduring problem of a controversial institution: the Electoral College. Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Keyssar, Alexander (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
Sujets:
Electoral college > United States > History.
Presidents > United States > Election > History.
Election law > United States > History.
Voting > United States > History.
Collège électoral > États-Unis > Histoire.
Vote > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National
Election law.
Electoral college.
Politics and government.
Presidents > Election.
Voting.
United States > Politics and government.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
United States.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Part I. Origins. From the Constitution to the Twelfth Amendment
  • Part II. The long struggle to abolish winner-take-all. Electoral reform in the era of good feelings
  • Three uneasy pieces, 1870-1960
  • Part III. A national popular vote. "A population anomalous" and a national popular vote, 1800-1960
  • An idea whose time has come
  • Last call for the twentieth century
  • Part IV. Partisan stalemate and electoral misfires. Pessimism and innovation, 1980-2020
  • Appendix A. Public opinion polls
  • Appendix B. Constitutional provisions for Presidential elections
  • Appendix C. The evolution of the term Electoral College.

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