Modified Power Indices for Indirect Voting

Guillermo Owen, Ines Lindner and Bernard Grofman
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Guillermo Owen: Naval Postgraduate School
Ines Lindner: Free University Amsterdam
Bernard Grofman: University of California

Chapter 7. in Power, Freedom, and Voting, 2008, pp 119-138 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Electoral College remains a controversial feature of U.S. political decision-making. After most U.S. presidential elections, there are calls for passage of a constitutional amendment to either abolish it or to ‘reform’ it substantially. There are numerous complaints about the Electoral College, of which the most important is the potential for the winner of the Electoral College majority to be a popular vote loser. Consider three assertions that often surface in the debates about the political impact of the Electoral College.

Keywords: Presidential Election; Power Index; Large State; Vote Power; Winning Coalition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73382-9_7

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