U.S. Electoral College/Bibliography

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• Best, Judith A. "Presidential Selection: Complex Problems and Simple Solutions." Political Science Quarterly 2004 119(1): 39-59. Issn: 0032-3195 Fulltext: in Ebsco
• Best, Judith A. The Case against Direct Election of the President: A Defense of the Electoral College. Cornell University Press. 1975. online edition
• Bugh, Gary Edward. "The Electoral Landscape and Institutional Reform: Exploring Efforts to Amend the Presidential Election System, 1948-1979." PhD dissertation State U. of New York, Albany 2004. 314 pp. DAI 2004 65(3): 1093-A. DA3125966
• Dahl, Robert A. How Democratic Is the American Constitution? Yale University Press, 2001
• Edwards, George C., III. Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America. Yale U. Press, 2004. 198 pp.
• Gaines, Brian, "Popular Myths about Popular Vote-Electoral College Splits," PS: Political Science & Politics (March 2001) pp 71 -75 online version
• Hill, David and Seth C. Mckee, "The Electoral College, Mobilization, and Turnout in the 2000 Presidential Election." American Politics Research 2005 33(5): 700-725. Issn: 1532-673x
• Issacharoff, Samuel. "Law, Rules, and Presidential Selection." Political Science Quarterly 2005 120(1): 113-129. Issn: 0032-3195 Fulltext: Ebsco
• Issacharoff, Samuel. "The Enabling Role of Democratic Constitutionalism: Fixed Rules and Some Implications for Contested Presidential Selection," Texas Law Review 2003 Vol. 81, pp 1861-1893
• Kuroda, Tadahisa. The Origins of the Twelfth Amendment: The Electoral College in the Early Republic, 1787-1804 Greenwood Press, 1994 online edition
• Levinson, Sanford, Daniel Lowenstein, and John McGinnis. "Debate: Should We Dispense with the Electoral College?" University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2007) online edition
• Panagopoulos, Costas. "Electoral Reform." Public Opinion Quarterly 2004 68(4): 623-640. Issn: 0033-362x Fulltext: in Ebsco
• Peirce, Neal R. "The People's President: The Electoral College in American History and the Direct-vote Alternative. 1968 online edition
• Rakove, Jack N. "Presidential Selection: Electoral Fallacies." Political Science Quarterly 2004 119(1): 21-37. Issn: 0032-3195 Fulltext: in Ebsco; critical of Best (2004)
• Schelsinger, Jr., Arthur. "How to Reform the Electoral College," New Perspectives Quarterly v18 (Winter 2001) online version
• Stewart, Warren. "California First to Pass Legislation to Establish National Popular Vote," VoteTrustUSA (September 01, 2006) online edition
• Turner, John J., Jr. "One Vote for the Electoral College." History Teacher 2007 40(3): 411-416. Issn: 0018-2745 Fulltext: Ebsco
• Turner, Robert C. Do Nebraska and Maine Have the Right Idea? The Political and Partisan Implications of the District System. Presidential Studies Quarterly 2005 35(1): 116-137. Issn: 0360-4918

Primary sources

• Federalist Paper #68
• Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House, Proposals for Electoral College Reform: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary... (1997) online edition
• Federal law contained in Chapter 1 of Title 3, United States Code (62 Stat. 672, as amended)