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Understanding U.S. Presidential Elections
Princeton University Press Blog
(2012)
Abstract
To offer fairness, an election system of two parties should exhibit at least two arithmetic properties. One is equality. Over a long span of time, the parties should fare roughly equally in elections. The other is changeability. Victories should go back and forth. The equality standard would be satisfied if one party won every contest for a century, then the other party for the next century, but the changeability standard would not be.
Keywords
- Political Science,
- Presidency,
- Congress,
- Presidential Elections,
- Elections
Disciplines
Publication Date
April 2, 2012
Citation Information
David R Mayhew. "Understanding U.S. Presidential Elections" Princeton University Press Blog (2012) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david-mayhew/262/