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|a Who Will Be the Next President? :
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|a Intro -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Contents -- 1 The Initial Design of the Electoral College: Basic Ideas, Logical Mistakes, and Overlooked Problems -- Abstract -- 1.1 The Founding Fathers' Electoral College: A Monster or a Masterpiece? -- 1.2 Neither the People, nor Congress: Why Electors? -- 1.3 The 1787 Great Compromise and the Electoral College -- 1.4 An Unpleasant Heritage: Is the Electoral College a Vestige of Slavery? -- 1.5 The Electoral College: A Decisive Body or a Selecting Committee? -- 1.6 The Same Qualities Required: The Choice of a President and a Vice President -- 1.7 The Founding Fathers' Mistake: Should Anybody Care? -- 1.8 What Did the Founding Fathers Miss? -- 1.9 Who Can Be President or Vice President? -- 2 The Electoral College Today -- Abstract -- 2.1 Which Constitutional Amendments Defined the Electoral College -- 2.2 The Twelfth Amendment Puzzles that Remain Unsolved -- 2.3 The Electoral College: Concepts and Basic Principles -- 2.4 The "Winner-Take-All" Principle and the 1787 Great Compromise -- 2.5 Electing a President in the House of Representatives -- 2.6 The Electoral College and Amendments 20, 22, 23, and 25 -- 2.7 Electoral Requirements and Amendments 13, 14, 15, 19, 24, and 26 -- 2.8 American Beliefs About the Election System -- 2.9 Is the Electoral College Impervious to Change? -- 3 Curbing Contingent Elections -- Abstract -- 3.1 Determining the Election Winner in Contingent Elections -- 3.2 When Both the Electoral College and Congress Fail -- 3.3 The Presidential Succession Act and Contingent Elections -- 4 Inconvenient Facts About the Electoral College -- Abstract -- 4.1 The Popular Vote as Americans Understand It -- 4.2 Which Election System Requires More Popular Votes to Win -- 4.3 The Voting Power of a Voter and the Voting Power of a State.
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|a 4.4 How Many States Secure the Victory? -- 4.5 What Should Be Considered the Will of the Nation? -- 5 The Electoral College and Campaign Strategies -- Abstract -- 5.1 The Electoral College and the Logic of Winning the Presidency -- 5.2 Allocating Financial and Time Resources -- 5.3 Optimizing the Candidate's Schedule -- 5.4 Applying Mathematics to Win -- 5.5 Gaming the Electoral College -- 5.6 Misleading the Opponents -- 6 The National Popular Vote Plan: A Brilliant Idea or a Dead-on-Arrival Delusion? -- Abstract -- 6.1 The National Popular Vote Plan: What It Is, and Who Supports It -- 6.2 The Equality of Votes Under the NPV Plan: What Is Real, and What Is Plausible -- 6.3 The "Achilles' Heel" of the NPV Plan -- 6.4 Is the NPV Plan Constitutional? -- 6.5 Twisting One Constitutional Right of the State Legislatures -- 6.6 Do the NPV Rules Violate the Supreme Court Decisions? -- 6.7 An Egregious NPV Rule for Appointing Non-elected Electors -- 6.8 Does the NPV Plan Really Retain the Electoral College? -- 6.9 Can the States Pull Out of the NPV Compact? -- 6.10 Does the NPV Plan Have a Chance? -- 7 Equalizing the Will of the States and the Will of the Nation -- Abstract -- 7.1 Public Perception of the Current System and Its Alternatives -- 7.2 Three Basic Approaches to Improving the System -- 7.3 A New Plan for Electing a President -- 8 Conclusion: Fundamental Merits, Embedded Deficiencies, and Urgent Problems of the U.S. Presidential Election System -- 8.1 Fundamental Merits of the System -- 8.2 Embedded Deficiencies of the System -- 8.3 Some Urgent Problems of the System -- 8.4 Seven Major Topics Relating to Presidential Elections -- References -- Index.
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