Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

by Alexander Keyssar

Book Overview

With every presidential election, Americans puzzle over the peculiar mechanism of the Electoral College. The author of the Pulitzer finalist The Right to Vote explains the enduring problem of this controversial institution.

Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674660153
• ISBN13: 9780674660151
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"