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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Electoral College"”.
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Interest group analysis of electoral college reform.
… to either the maintenance or reform of the electoral college system. After categorizing the groups in terms of their preference for the present electoral college or one of the four basic plans for reform, an attempt is made to discover the way in which the group decisions on electoral …
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Jacksonian Democracy and the Electoral College: Politics and Reform in the Method of Selecting Presidential Electors, 1824-1833
The Electoral College and Jacksonian Democracy are two subjects that have been studied extensively. Taken together, however, little has been written on how the method of choosing presidential electors during the Age of Jackson changed. Although many historians have written on the development of …
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Trending in the Right Direction: Using Google Trends Data as a Measure of Public Opinion During a Presidential Election
… showed a lead in the popular vote and Electoral College for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Following Trump's surprise victory, the political pundits and public at large began to question the accuracy of modern public opinion polling. Fielding a representative sample, convoluted and …
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A critical analysis of selected campaign speeches of Richard M. Nixon during the 1960 presidential campaign
… the closest Presidential race in 76 years”. The electoral college gave Mr. Kennedy a lead of 81 electoral votes over Mr. Nixon.</p><p>Speech-making played a vital role in the campaign from the beginning to the end. This study is directed specifically toward the speeches of the Republican …
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Rule of the Fewer: Electoral Inversions and their Consequences
… popular plurality. This phenomenon is called an electoral inversion; it is the focus of my dissertation. More precisely, electoral inversions occur when the party (or coalition of parties) that wins the most votes nevertheless loses the election. While scholars have long recognized that electoral …