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The Constitution, the Electoral College, and the American Concept of Democracy - A View from Europe (CROSBI ID 52299)

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Podolnjak, Robert The Constitution, the Electoral College, and the American Concept of Democracy - A View from Europe // 2012 U.S. Presidential Election / Laidler, Pawel ; Turek, Maciej (ur.). Krakov: Jagiellonian University Press, 2014. str. 11-30

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Podolnjak, Robert

engleski

The Constitution, the Electoral College, and the American Concept of Democracy - A View from Europe

The article analyses the institution of the Electoral College as the most unique and, at the same time, the most controversial of all American constitutional establishments.Contemporary supporters of the Electoral College defend this system as a historically proven model of extraordinary constitutional flexibility, which protects the federal system and the separation of powers, and guarantees respect for plural character of the American society and minority interests. Quite contrary, the author thinks that in modern times it is normatively impossible to defend the electoral college from the standpoint of preserving the principle of federalism in the American political system, because the presidential election system, as it functions today, is not a federal, “Madisonian” system of concurrent majorities, in the original meaning of those terms.The thesis of the article is that the electoral college system embodies a compound and highly contradictory compromise between the modern democratic principles of popular sovereignty and political equality of each citizen and the federal principle, which emphasizes the crucial role of the states in the process of presidential selection, and this compromise shows the distinctness of the American concept of democracy.

the electoral college, the United States, constitution, democracy

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11-30.

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Podaci o knjizi

2012 U.S. Presidential Election

Laidler, Pawel ; Turek, Maciej

Krakov: Jagiellonian University Press

2014.

978-83-233-3743-0

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