Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

by Alexander Keyssar

Book Overview

A New Statesman Book of the Year

"America's greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy--the electoral college...A brilliant contribution to a critical current debate."
--Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don't Represent Us

Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through an arcane...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674278593
• ISBN13: 9780674278592
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 5.8" x 8.4"