The electoral college: a misunderstood institution. (textbook errors on electoral college mechanisms)

PS: Political Science & Politics | March 1, 1997| | Copyright

"It was of great importance not to make the government too complex." Thus did Caleb Strong, a Massachusetts delegate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, argue against the use of the electoral college to select the president and vice president. Most college textbooks for the introductory American government course discuss the mechanics of the electoral college, so we decided to examine eighteen textbooks and their treatment of the electoral college.(1) Written by prominent political scientists, these texts contain many errors on the workings of the electoral college. It ...

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