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9780415931939

Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415931939

  • ISBN10:

    0415931932

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-06-14
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

"What's wrong with politics in America?...Political analyst Steven Hill offers up a single answer in his new book, Fixing Elections--it's the winner-take-all system of elections." --Neal Peirce, Houston Chronicle

Author Biography

Steven Hill is Associate Director and cofounder of the Center for Voting and Democracy, a non-profit organization promoting election reform.

Table of Contents

Prologue The Landscape of Post-Democracy vii
PART ONE GEOGRAPHY IS DESTINY
``A House Divided...''
3(18)
Ex Uno Plures: ``One System, Two Nations''
21(17)
The Technology of Democracy
38(25)
PART TWO THE PEOPLE'S CONGRESS?
The People's House
63(15)
Behind Closed Doors: The Recurring Plague of Redistricting
78(16)
The Gravity of the Prize
94(25)
Worse than Winner Take All: Affirmative Action for Low-Population States
119(22)
PART THREE THE DEATH OF DISCOURSE
Of Pollster-geists and Consultants: The Mad Science of Winner Take All Campaigns
141(24)
The Wizards behind the Curtain
165(15)
The Winner Take All Media: The Fourth Estate Sells Out
180(21)
Caught between a Poll and a Hard Focus Group: The Loss of Political Ideas
201(22)
PART FOUR MAJORITY RULE? OR MAJORITY FOOLED?
Winner Take All Policy: Where the Majority Does Not Always Rule
223(17)
The Roller-Coaster Policy Ride of Winner Take All
240(24)
The Gatekeepers of Winner Take All
264(14)
``Winner Takes Nothing''
278(20)
Epilogue Toward ``E Pluribus Unum'' 298(3)
Acknowledgments 301(4)
Notes 305(44)
Index 349

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