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Record Nr.

UNINA9910166956103321

Autore

Belenky Alexander S

Titolo

Who Will Be the Next President? [[electronic resource] ] : A Guide to the U.S. Presidential Election System / / by Alexander S. Belenky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer Nature, 2016

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-44696-7

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 165 p. 2 illus.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Law

Disciplina

340.9

340.2

Soggetti

Conflict of laws

United States—Politics and government

Law—Philosophy

Law

Elections

Mathematics

Social sciences

Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law

US Politics

Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History

Electoral Politics

Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1 The Initial Design of the Electoral College: Basic Ideas,Logical Mistakes, and Overlooked Problems -- 2 The Electoral College Today -- 3 Curbing Contingent Elections -- 4 Inconvenient Facts About the Electoral College -- 5 The Electoral College and Campaign Strategies -- 6 The National Popular Vote Plan: A Brilliant Idea or a Dead-on-Arrival Delusion? -- 7 Equalizing the Will of the States and the Will of the Nation -- 8. Conclusion: Fundamental Merits, Embedded Deficiencies, and Some Urgent Problems of the U.S. Presidential Election System.



Sommario/riassunto

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.