Fixing Elections. The Failure Of America's Winner Take All Politics

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Routledge
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: First Edition

Description: 363 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Even as Florida painstakingly recounted punch-cards in 2000, voters sensed something was deeply wrong with a system in which the less popular candidate might win the highest office in the USA. Fixing Elections shows why its not just that the Electoral College is outdated, but that Americas 18th-century political technology -especially the Winner-Take-All system - has outlived its usefulness. While voter turnout plummets to the single digits (episodes of survivor draw larger audiences than midterm elections), analysts have blamed the growing apathy of the American electorate. But as Hill so eloquently argues, todays Americans are not a lazier, less civic-minded people than their grandparents. Voting just seems pointless to many US citizens because they recognize the truth: their votes really dont count. A vote for Nader may have been a wasted vote, but so was a vote for Gore in Texas, where he had no chance of winning. This is because our system relies on geographic representation and the two party duopoly. Provocative political critic Steven Hill argues this system is as the root of many of our worst political problems, including poor minority representation, low voter turnout,

ISBN: 9780415931939