Fixing Elections: The Failure of America’s Winner Take All Politics — When Rules Shape Power
What if some of the political behavior we blame on candidates and parties is partly shaped by the rules under which they compete?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Fixing Elections: The Failure of America’s Winner Take All Politics by Steven Hill as our lens, this episode investigates electoral systems as a form of institutional architecture.
Hill’s 2002 book argues that winner-take-all rules can influence far more than individual election outcomes. His analysis connects geographic single-seat districts and two-party competition to what he…
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