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Who Will Be the Next President? : A Guide to the U. S. Presidential Election System.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Belenky, Alexander S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2016.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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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