PAPERS ON THE ORIGINS, EVOLUTION,
OPERATIONS AND PROPERTIES
OF THE
U.S. ELECTORAL COLLEGE
"The U.S. Electoral College".
In Robert S. Rycroft, ed., The
American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress
and Poverty. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press, 2017, pp.
386-389.
"Even
Without ‘Senate’ Electoral Votes, the Size of the U.S. House
of Representatives Could Still Determine the Outcome of
Presidential Elections". LSE Blog: USAPP– American Politics and Policy,
November 27, 2014
"Problems with the National Popular Vote
Plan". Saving
America.Com: Ballot Box, August 2014
"The House Size Effect and
the Referendum Paradox in U.S. Presidential Elections",
Electoral Studies,
35 (September, 2014): 265-271
"Why the Electoral College
Is Good for Political Science", Public Choice,
150/1-2 (January, 2012): 1-25
"Banzhaf Voting Power, Random Elections, and the Electoral
College Winner’s Advantage",
Electoral Studies,
30 (December, 2011):
829-833 Full Tables 1(a), 1(b), and 2 [PDF]
"Election Inversions by
the U.S. Electoral College", in Dan S. Felsenthal and
Moshé Machover, eds., Electoral
Systems: Paradoxes, Assumptions, and Procedures,
Heidelberg: Springer, 2012 (Chapter 4, pp. 93-127)
"A Priori Voting Power and the U.S. Electoral
College", Homo
Oeconomicus, 26/3-4, 2009
PowerPoint Presentations
Election
Inversions by Variants of the U.S. Electoral College,
Public Choice Society, March 2015
Election
Inversions By the U.S.
Electoral College, Public
Choice Society, March 2011
Election
Inversions and the U.S. Electoral College, Voting Power
and Procedures (VPP) Summer Workshop on Assessing Alternative
Voting Procedures, Chateau du Baffy, Normandy, France, July
20-August 2, 2010.
Why the Electoral
College Is Good for Political Science (and Public Choice), Public Choice Society,
March 2010
A
Priori Voting
Power and the U.S. Electoral College, Public
Choice Society, March 2010
Analyzing
the Electoral College,
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
(INFORMS), Washington DC, October 14, 2008
The U.S. Electoral
College: Origins and Transformation, Problems and
Prospects, UMBC Constitution Day, September 17, 2008
The
U.S. Electoral College: Origins and Transformation, Variants
and Problems,
Program in
Voting Power and Procedures (VPP), London School of Economics,
London UK, May 6, 2008.
Power
Point Presentations from POLI 309 and POLI 423
Voting
to Elect a Single Candidate
The Origins and
Transformation of the Electoral College
The
Effect of House Size, Apportionment, and Districting on the
Electoral College
Origins
and Transformation of the Electoral College
Voting
Power
in
the
Electoral College
Overview of
Presidential Elections
Popular
Votes and Electoral Votes
The Changing
Battleground
Multi-Candidate
Presidential Elections and the Contingent Procedure
How
Does the Electoral College Translate Popular Votes into
Electoral Votes? [Overview of Elections, Alternate
Scenarios, Charts]
[in progress]