1. Presidential Selection: Electoral Fallacies
- Author:
- Jack N. Rakove
- Publication Date:
- 03-2004
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Political Science Quarterly
- Institution:
- Academy of Political Science
- Abstract:
- JACK N. RAKOVE examines the conventional arguments made on behalf of preserving the state-based system of presidential elections and concludes that the familiar defenses of the electoral college are fallacious. If one person-one vote is the fundamental norm of modern democracy, there is no persuasive rationale that can legitimate the leveraging effect of the “senatorial bump” on the voting weights of differently sized states.
- Topic:
- Elections, Democracy, Presidential Elections, and Electoral College
- Political Geography:
- North America and United States of America