MARC details
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03600cam a2200397 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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on1130041289 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20200901131259.0 |
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200204t20202020mau b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2019059988 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
MH/DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
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OCLCO |
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OCLCF |
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YDX |
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NFG |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674660151 |
| Qualifying information |
hardcover |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0674660153 |
| Qualifying information |
hardcover |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1130041289 |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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pcc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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n-us--- |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
324.63 |
| Item number |
K44 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Keyssar, Alexander, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Why do we still have the electoral college? / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Alexander Keyssar. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Harvard University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
2020. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
©2020 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
531 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content Type Term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Part I. Origins: From the Constitution to the Twelfth Amendment -- Part II. The long fight against winner-take-all: Electoral reform in the era of good feelings -- Three uneasy pieces: the persistence of winner-take-all -- Part III. A national popular vote -- "A population anomalous" and a national popular vote, 1800- -- An idea whose time has come -- Last call for the twentieth century -- Part IV. Stalemate: Resignation and innovation, 1979-. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"The author of the Pulitzer finalist The Right to Vote explains the enduring problem of an controversial institution: the Electoral College. Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Most Americans would prefer a national popular vote, and Congress has attempted on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College. Several of these efforts-one as recently as 1970-came very close to winning approval. Yet this controversial system remains. Alexander Keyssar explains its persistence. After tracing the Electoral College's tangled origins at the Constitutional Convention, he explores the efforts from 1800 to 2019 to abolish or significantly reform it, showing why each has thus far failed. Reasons include the tendency of political parties to elevate partisan advantage above democratic values, the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments, and, especially, the impulse to preserve white supremacy in the South, which led to the region's prolonged backing of the Electoral College. The most common explanation-that small states have blocked reform for fear of losing influence-has only occasionally been true. Keyssar examines why reform of the Electoral College has received so little attention from Congress for the last forty years, as well as alternatives to congressional action such as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and state efforts to eliminate winner-take-all. In analyzing the reasons for past failures while showing how close the nation has come to abolishing the institution, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? offers encouragement to those hoping to produce change in the twenty-first century"-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Electoral college |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Presidents |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Election |
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History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
120174 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Election law |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
226007 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Voting |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
261011 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Politics and government. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
196 |
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C0 |
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NFG |
