Abstract

A bit too late (due to Polity scheduling rather than any fault of the author) to affect the result of the 1980 election, this article explores the interaction of voter coalitions and rules for electing the president in order to elucidate normative and empirical issues in the proposal to substitute direct election for the electoral college system. Using an innovative geometric scheme, the author analyzes the biases in the present system, challenges the claims put forward by it, and dramatically illustrates his argument with a dissection of the critical 1860 election. Professor Sterling illuminates both the pragmatic and the normative case for direct popular election.

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