Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? Keyssar Alexander
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? Keyssar Alexander A New Statesman Book of the Year "America's greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre…
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Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? Keyssar Alexander
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 UsEvery 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