Electoral College or Direct Election: Structural Incentives in U.S. Presidential Coalitions

• In Event: U.S. Presidential Elections: Strategies and Outcomes

Brief Overview

The paper uses election and economic data to estimate and compare incentive effects of coalition structure in U.S. Presidential elections, 1964-2016, offering quantitative, institutional analysis in lieu of customary normative political arguments.

Author

• Michael Fotos, Yale University