Who Will Be the Next President? : A Guide to the U. S. Presidential Election System. - Belenky, Alexander S. (Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2016)
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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