The Electoral College Primer 2000 - Softcover

Longley, Lawrence D.; Peirce, Neal R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300080360 ISBN 13: 9780300080360

Verlag: Yale University Press, 1999

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Book by Longley Professor Lawrence D Peirce Mr Neal R

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A guide to how the US electoral system works - and sometimes misfires. At its best, the authors reveal, the electoral college distorts campaign strategy and poorly represents the popular will. At its worst, it can create political and constitutional crisis.

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The president of the United States is not actually elected by a direct vote of the people but indirectly by means of an electoral college. Yet the operations of our archaic electoral college and the extent of its influence in presidential elections are little understood by most Americans. In this complete and authoritative guide to the electoral college, Lawrence D. Longley and Neal R. Peirce provide essential Information on how the electoral system works -- and sometimes misfires. At its best, the authors reveal, the electoral college distorts campaign strategy and poorly represents the popular will. And at its worst, it can create political and constitutional crises.

The book includes detailed accounts of recent elections, including that of 1992 when election of the president by the House of Representatives appeared for a while to be the likely outcome. The authors also offer an imaginative version of election year 2000, during which the astonishing results of an electoral deadlock demonstrate the disastrous failings of the electoral college as a means of electing the people's president.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0300080360
• ISBN 13: 9780300080360
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224