Fixing elections
Subtitle: the failure of America's winner take all politics
By: Steven Hill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Representative government and representation; Voting; Elections
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-348) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one.  Geography is destiny; title: Chapter one.  "A  house divided ..."; title: Chapter two.  Ex uno plures : "one system, two nations"; title: Chapter three.  The technology of democracy; title: Part two.  The people's Congress?; title: Chapter four.  The people's house; title: Chapter five.  Behind closed doors : the recurring plague of redistricting; title: Chapter six.  The gravity of the prize; title: Chapter seven.  Worse than winner take all : affirmative action for low-population states; title: Part three.  The death of discourse; title: Chapter eight.  Of pollster-geists and consultants : the mad science of winner take all campaigns; title: Chapter nine.  The wizards behind the curtain; title: Chapter ten.  The winner take all media : the fourth estate sells out; title: Chapter eleven.  Caught between a poll and a hard focus group : the loss of political ideas; title: Part four.  Majority rule? or majority fooled?; title: Chapter twelve.  Winner take all policy : where the majority does not always rule; title: Chapter thirteen.  The roller-coaster policy ride of winner take all; title: Chapter fourteen.  The gatekeepers of winner take all; title: Chapter fifteen.  "Winner takes nothing"; title: Epilogue.  Toward "E pluribus unum."