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
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