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Modified Power Indices for Indirect Voting

In: Power, Freedom, and Voting

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  • Guillermo Owen

    (Naval Postgraduate School)

  • Ines Lindner

    (Free University Amsterdam)

  • Bernard Grofman

    (University of California)

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.

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  • Guillermo Owen & Ines Lindner & Bernard Grofman, 2008. "Modified Power Indices for Indirect Voting," Springer Books, in: Matthew Braham & Frank Steffen (ed.), Power, Freedom, and Voting, chapter 7, pages 119-138, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-73382-9_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73382-9_7
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    1. Alan Washburn, 2013. "OR Forum---Blotto Politics," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 61(3), pages 532-543, June.

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