How America Chooses Its Presidents
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Author |
: Alexander S. Belenky |
Publisher |
: AuthorHouse |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2007-04-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781463453718 |
ISBN-13 |
: 146345371X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis How America Chooses Its Presidents by : Alexander S. Belenky
How America Chooses Its Presidents addresses in a simple manner the whole spectrum of issues relating To The Electoral College from the perspective of its logical foundations. This is the first book to question the applicability of the Presidential Succession Act, a Federal Statute, In certain extreme but possible situations. The book argues that the act may not protect the country from election stalemates. Today, 50 states and DC rather than a college of electors award electoral votes in presidential elections. This appears to violate the "one state, one vote" principle, The constitutional norm governing the electing of a President by states, since a state's electoral vote quota is based on the size of its population. Despite the counting of the nationwide popular vote since the 1824 election, its tally does not have any constitutional status, since the popular vote in every state is no more than a means for determining the winning slate of presidential electors in the state. The "winner-take-all" principle of awarding electoral votes makes many states "safe" for either major party candidate. This narrows election campaigns to a "battleground minority" of the states and contributes to keeping more than 40% of the electorate uninterested in voting in presidential elections. Abolishing the existing election system in favor of a direct popular presidential election—by means of a constitutional amendment—seems unlikely. Seventeen small states—with five and fewer electoral votes each—have no reason to voluntarily surrender the "one state, one vote" principle in electing a President in the House of Representatives, As well as the chance of having a say in the Electoral College. The book analyzes a controversial proposal to "circumvent" the small states by introducing a direct popular presidential election without a constitutional amendment and argues that this proposal is unlikely to prevail either. The book proposes a modification of the existing election system to allow the country to choose a ticket carrying two mandates that the electorate can give in the election—from the nation as a whole and from the states and DC as equal members of the Union. If any two tickets carry one mandate each, The number of electoral votes won by each ticket helps determine the election outcome. If neither a majority of voting voters nor a majority of 51 members of the Union favor any ticket, The Electoral College mechanism takes over as a backup, and if it fails, The election is thrown into the US Congress. The book, written for a general readership, provides an overview of original election rules, determined by Article 2 of the US Constitution, and contemporary ones, determined by the Twelfth Amendment. Understanding the book does not require any special knowledge, making it accessible to people of all walks of life at any age. At the same time, The readers of How America Chooses Its Presidents will undoubtedly improve their ability to think logically, making them more critical of statements about the Electoral College and about election campaigns.
Author |
: Brian Church |
Publisher |
: Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages |
: 169 |
Release |
: 2021-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781398101944 |
ISBN-13 |
: 139810194X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tuesday's Child: How America Chooses its Presidents by : Brian Church
A fun and snappy look at how the world's most important job is filled each year - published in time for the 2020 election. Written in a conversational style, former ESPN columnist Brian Church looks at the electoral college, the history of dirty campaigns and more.
Author |
: Alexander Keyssar |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 545 |
Release |
: 2020-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674974142 |
ISBN-13 |
: 067497414X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? by : Alexander Keyssar
A New Statesman Book of the Year “America’s greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy—the electoral college...A brilliant contribution to a critical current debate.” —Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don’t Represent Us Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Congress has tried on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College, and in this master class in American political history, a renowned Harvard professor explains its confounding persistence. After tracing the tangled origins of the Electoral College back to the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Keyssar outlines the constant stream of efforts since then to abolish or reform it. Why have they all failed? The complexity of the design and partisan one-upmanship have a lot to do with it, as do the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments and the South’s long history of restrictive voting laws. By revealing the reasons for past failures and showing how close we’ve come to abolishing the Electoral College, Keyssar offers encouragement to those hoping for change. “Conclusively demonstrates the absurdity of preserving an institution that has been so contentious throughout U.S. history and has not infrequently produced results that defied the popular will.” —Michael Kazin, The Nation “Rigorous and highly readable...shows how the electoral college has endured despite being reviled by statesmen from James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson to Edward Kennedy, Bob Dole, and Gerald Ford.” —Lawrence Douglas, Times Literary Supplement
Author |
: Elaine C. Kamarck |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2018-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0815735278 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780815735274 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Primary Politics by : Elaine C. Kamarck
"Explores one of the most important questions in American politics--how we narrow the list of presidential candidates every four years. Focuses on how presidential candidates have sought to alter the rules in their favor and how their failures and successes have led to even more change"--Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Alexander S. Belenky |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 443 |
Release |
: 2012-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783642238192 |
ISBN-13 |
: 364223819X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding the Fundamentals of the U.S. Presidential Election System by : Alexander S. Belenky
This is the first book on the U.S. presidential election system to analyze the basic principles underlying the design of the existing system and those at the heart of competing proposals for improving the system. The book discusses how the use of some election rules embedded in the U.S. Constitution and in the Presidential Succession Act may cause skewed or weird election outcomes and election stalemates. The book argues that the act may not cover some rare though possible situations which the Twentieth Amendment authorizes Congress to address. Also, the book questions the constitutionality of the National Popular Vote Plan to introduce a direct popular presidential election de facto, without amending the Constitution, and addresses the plan’s “Achilles’ Heel.” In particular, the book shows that the plan may violate the Equal Protection Clause from the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. Numerical examples are provided to show that the counterintuitive claims of the NPV originators and proponents that the plan will encourage presidential candidates to “chase” every vote in every state do not have any grounds. Finally, the book proposes a plan for improving the election system by combining at the national level the “one state, one vote” principle – embedded in the Constitution – and the “one person, one vote” principle. Under this plan no state loses its current Electoral College benefits while all the states gain more attention of presidential candidates.
Author |
: Robert E. DiClerico |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0847694488 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780847694488 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Choosing Our Choices by : Robert E. DiClerico
Probably no feature of the American political system has been subject to more sustained criticism over the last twenty-five years than the process by which we choose our presidents. In Choosing Our Choices, Robert E. DiClerico and James W. Davis debate the question: should we retain the present, primary centered 'direct democracy' method in selecting presidential candidates or should we return to a representative decision-making process to nominate our candidates? This timely and thought-provoking text offers the reader a concise yet comprehensive analysis of the presidential nominating system, arguments for and against the current system, and supplemental documents and essays for further reading. Choosing Our Choices will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in exploring how Americans choose their leaders.
Author |
: Thomas E. Patterson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 1980 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015035321226 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mass Media Election by : Thomas E. Patterson
A detailed study of presidential election news coverage and its effect on voters focuses on the news audience and the images of candidates.
Author |
: Therese M. Shea |
Publisher |
: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages |
: 38 |
Release |
: 2006-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 140423358X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781404233584 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis America's Electoral College by : Therese M. Shea
Examines the process of choosing the president.
Author |
: Walter Berns |
Publisher |
: A E I Press |
Total Pages |
: 56 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015008570353 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis After the People Vote by : Walter Berns
Author |
: Edward B. Foley |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190060152 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190060158 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Presidential Elections and Majority Rule by : Edward B. Foley
In his latest book, Presidential Elections and Majority Rule, Edward Foley asks how the American electoral system can better represent the people. What kind of winner truly reflects the nation's votes: the plurality winners of winner-takes-all elections, as currently used, or the majority-preferred winners of a reformed system? How do third-party candidates affect American presidential elections? What, if anything, would change in a two-candidate run-off?And how can electoral reform be implemented without sowing chaos? Ultimately, Foley outlines a solution in which the Electoral College can be restored to its original majoritarian ideals through state law rather than Constitutional amendment.