US Electoral College

Nicholas R. Miller

Chapter 116 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice, 2025, pp 817-823 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The President of the United States is elected, not by a direct national popular vote, but by an Electoral College system under which (in almost universal practice since the 1830s) separate state popular votes are aggregated by adding up “electoral votes” awarded on a winner-take-all basis to the candidate who wins a plurality of votes in each state. The Electoral College is perhaps the most distinctive and controversial of US political institutions, as it has produced several election inversions, at times exhibited distinct partisan bias, and raised questions about the relative voting power among voters in different states.

Keywords: Electoral college; Election inversion; Partisan bias; Voting power; National Popular Vote Plan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802207743
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