Lexington Books
Pages: 210
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-66691-624-9 • Hardback • April 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-66691-625-6 • eBook • March 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Jay Wendland is associate professor of political science at Daemen University.
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: How We Got This Messed-Up System
Chapter 2: It’s Not “Excellent,” But It’s Not All Bad
Chapter 3: 700 Attempts at Reform: Examining the Drawbacks of the Electoral College
Chapter 4: The Inherent Racism of the Electoral College: The Three-Fifths Compromise, Voter ID Laws, and Racial Inequality
Chapter 5: We’ve Tried this Before: Analyzing the Major Reform Proposals
Chapter 6: A Novel Approach: Joining the Federalist Ideal with the National Will Through the Constant Two Plan
Chapter 7: Beyond Time for Reform: Evaluating the Constant Two Plan
Bibliography
About the Author
Wendland illuminates the context in which the Electoral College was created, the logic which undergirded it, and its subsequent history, laying bare the outdated assumptions, undemocratic character, and rickety vulnerability of a system for picking the president that devised in the 18th century
— Eric Burin, University of North Dakota