Who Will Be the Next President? A Guide to the U.S. Presidential Ele

This book addresses the peculiarities of the current presidential election system not yet addressed in other publications. It argues that any rules for electing a President that may have a chance to replace the current ones should provide an equal represe

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Alex­an­der S. Bel­enky

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

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Alex­an­der S. Bel­enky Department of Mathematics for E ­ conomics and   Decision Choice and Analysis Laboratory National Research University Higher   School of Economics Moscow, Russia and Center for Engineering Systems  Fundamentals Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA, USA

ISSN    2192-855X ISBN 978-3-642-32635-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-32636-3

ISSN    2192-8568  (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-32636-3  (eBook)

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Preface

If the title of this book has caught your eye, spend a cou­ple of ­min­utes to look at the fol­low­ing list of state­ments rel­e­vant to Amer­i­can pres­i­den­tial elec­tions: 1. The sys­tem for elect­ing a Pres­id­ ent was not designed to reflect the pop­u­lar will. 2. The cur­rent elec­tion sys­tem does not fol­low some major ideas of the ­Found­ing Fathers. 3