{"title":"The Electoral College as a Vulnerability of American Democracy","authors":"K. Sukhoverkhov","doi":"10.48137/2074-2975_2023_6_42","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the main issues of the transformation of the electoral college in the United States, how they affect changes in the American Constitution and the emergence of the «winner-take-all» rule at the state level. The article describes the modern process of electing the US president, its peculiarities and the role of the electoral college; it analyzes the attempts to reform and abolish the electoral college, its problems and prospects for overcoming them.","PeriodicalId":518319,"journal":{"name":"Обозреватель–Observer","volume":"46 48","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Обозреватель–Observer","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.48137/2074-2975_2023_6_42","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The article discusses the main issues of the transformation of the electoral college in the United States, how they affect changes in the American Constitution and the emergence of the «winner-take-all» rule at the state level. The article describes the modern process of electing the US president, its peculiarities and the role of the electoral college; it analyzes the attempts to reform and abolish the electoral college, its problems and prospects for overcoming them.