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Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Honored that @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social invited me to write a brief essay on the Electoral College for its online journal, History Now. www.gilderlehrman.org/history-reso...gilderlehrman.orgExploring the Electoral College Universe | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American HistoryExploring the Electoral College Universe | The Electoral College is a vast and bountiful area of study. A host of historians, legal scholars, and political scientists, as well as practitioners of othe... 031
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Proud and grateful to work with the open-access Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. 041
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition is available as a free digital download (thedigitalpress.org/Picking-the-...) & as a low-cost paperback (www.amazon.com/Picking-Pres...).thedigitalpress.orgPicking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded EditionEric Burin, ed. Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition. 2025. Download | PurchaseMedia Kit During the latter half of 2024, with the United States a… 000
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025PICKING THE PRESIDENT: THE DIGITAL PRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA. Scores of individuals and institutions helped bring the Revised and Expanded Edition to fruition. Another grateful h/t to all who made it possible, especially The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota.thedigitalpress.orgPicking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded EditionEric Burin, ed. Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition. 2025. Download | PurchaseMedia Kit During the latter half of 2024, with the United States a… 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition is available as a free digital download (thedigitalpress.org/Picking-the-...) & as a low-cost paperback (www.amazon.com/Picking-Pres...).thedigitalpress.orgPicking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded EditionEric Burin, ed. Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition. 2025. Download | PurchaseMedia Kit During the latter half of 2024, with the United States a… 000
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 16/02/2025PICKING THE PRESIDENT: PART III (“RESOURCES”). Part III features fifty items, including the complete debate on the subject at the Constitutional Convention, which illuminate the creation, ratification, and early evolution of the United States’ presidential election system. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition is available as a free digital download (thedigitalpress.org/Picking-the-...) & as a low-cost paperback (www.amazon.com/Picking-Pres...).thedigitalpress.orgPicking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded EditionEric Burin, ed. Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition. 2025. Download | PurchaseMedia Kit During the latter half of 2024, with the United States a… 000
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Combined, Section One and Section Two provide an expansive view of the United States’ presidential election system from its inception onward. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025PAUL SCHUMAKER holds up for consideration 2 prospective constitutional amendments: one to amend the Constitution’s amendment process and the other to institute a presidential election system which would use approval voting for a preliminary election and ranked-choice voting for the general election. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025RANDALL M. MILLER posits that “reformers” and “the people” can constructively live “within” the extant presidential election system by championing the adoption of democracy-enhancing measures which in time may foster “popular support to scrap” the current system altogether. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025GEORGE C. EDWARDS III elaborates on this theme, explaining that “states do not embody coherent, unified interests” and that the way the system currently operates, presidential candidates “ignore most small states; in fact, they ignore most of the country.” 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025JACK N. RAKOVE makes four “big points” about the system, the last one being that to change it, individuals must “grasp” that no one votes based on “the size (meaning populace) of their state,” but rather that the “real interests” which “determine our votes are scattered across all states.” 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025ROBERT M. ALEXANDER focuses on the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, which was enacted “to prevent another January 6th.” 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025GARY BUGH reviews the 1960s’ and 1970s’ congressional debates on the subject with an eye toward discerning how U.S. lawmakers conceptualized representation. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Section Two features essays which illuminate modern efforts to reform or abolish the United States’ presidential election system. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025HEATHER COX RICHARDSON provides a wide-ranging history of the nation’s presidential election system from its creation to the eve of the 2024 contest. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025KATHLEEN BARTOLONI-TUAZON platforms the person who from the beginning literally and figuratively towered over the entire issue, George Washington. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025MICHAEL T. ROGERS assesses additional criticisms which were leveled against the system during the ratification contest. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025MARK STEPHEN JENDRYSIK examines Thomas Jefferson’s skeptical response to the Constitution’s presidential election system, a disfavor which partly stemmed from his fear that it would be susceptible to foreign interference. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025WILDRED U. CODRINGTON III shifts the attention to contingent elections (i.e., instances in which the electoral vote is inconclusive), observing that the provisions for them are “tragically minoritarian.” 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025ROSEMARIE ZAGARRI casts the system which the delegates devised as a reflection of “the fundamental tension Americans faced at the time…; that is, the tension between the people as the basis of representative government and the states as the basis of union.” 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025JANE E. CALVERT showcases another delegate who influenced the formation of the presidential election system, John Dickinson, the prolific “Penman of the Founding” who “may have hoped for a time when electors would be unnecessary.” 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025MICHAEL H. TAYLOR spotlights a central figure in that story, James Wilson, who at the Constitutional Convention was the first to propose a popular vote to elect the president and (one day later) was the first to propose an elector system for that purpose. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025JOHN P. KAMINSKI surveys how the issue went from being “continually rehashed” at the Constitutional Convention, to generating “relatively little sustained discussion” during the ratification contest in 1787-88, and finally to becoming the subject of Amendment XII of the U.S. Constitution in 1804. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Section One features essays which illuminate the creation, ratification, and evolution of the United States’ presidential election system. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025PICKING THE PRESIDENT: PART II (“NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE”). The Revised and Expanded Edition of Picking the President unveils fifteen new essays. A summary of them follows. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition is available as a free digital download (thedigitalpress.org/Picking-the-...) & as a low-cost paperback (www.amazon.com/Picking-Pres...).thedigitalpress.orgPicking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded EditionEric Burin, ed. Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition. 2025. Download | PurchaseMedia Kit During the latter half of 2024, with the United States a… 010
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025PICKING THE PRESIDENT: PART II (“THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE IN THE AMERICAN MIND”). In September 2024, I conducted a nationwide study on the Electoral College. The questionnaire is included in book & the study’s aggregate results are posted on the UND Scholarly Commons: commons.und.edu/data/32/.commons.und.eduThe Electoral College in the American Mind Dataset, September 13-17, 2024The dataset was generated by a study titled “The Electoral College in the American Mind,” the purpose of which was to better understand people’s thoughts and feelings about the Electoral College. The ... 120
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition is available as a free digital download (thedigitalpress.org/Picking-the-...) & as a low-cost paperback (www.amazon.com/Picking-Pres...).thedigitalpress.orgPicking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded EditionEric Burin, ed. Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition. 2025. Download | PurchaseMedia Kit During the latter half of 2024, with the United States a… 000
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025PICKING THE PRESIDENT: PART II (INTRODUCTION: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE). In my new 5,500-word Introduction, I aimed to lucidly explain this complex subject in a narrative format—to tell the Electoral College’s story as a thought-provoking, engaging, and momentous tale. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition is available as a free digital download (thedigitalpress.org/Picking-the-...) & as a low-cost paperback (www.amazon.com/Picking-Pres...).thedigitalpress.orgPicking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded EditionEric Burin, ed. Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition. 2025. Download | PurchaseMedia Kit During the latter half of 2024, with the United States a… 000
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025PICKING THE PRESIDENT: PART I (“THE FIRST EDITION OF PICKING THE PRESIDENT”). We expected to include the first edition’s essays in the Revised and Expanded Edition. Bill Caraher’s suggestion to also include its Preface and Introduction enhanced the book’s transparency, distinctiveness, and utility. 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Honored, grateful, and proud to have The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota publish Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition. thedigitalpress.org/2025/02/11/n...thedigitalpress.orgNEW BOOK DAY: Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition.It is my pleasure to announce the publication a Revised and Expanded Edition of Eric Burin’s Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. This edition features over a doze… 032
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition is available as a free digital download (thedigitalpress.org/Picking-the-...) and as a low-cost paperback (www.amazon.com/Picking-Pres...). A grateful h/t to all who made it possible.thedigitalpress.orgPicking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded EditionEric Burin, ed. Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition. 2025. Download | PurchaseMedia Kit During the latter half of 2024, with the United States a… 000
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025…The Revised and Expanded Edition likewise rests on the former and welcomes the latter.” This new edition is available in two formats: 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025As noted in the Revised and Expanded Edition’s Preface, “approximately eight years after its release, the first edition of Picking the President stands as a small monument to those who made it possible and to popular interest in the United States’ presidential election system… 100
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025PICKING THE PRESIDENT: REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION. With gratitude, I present Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition. The 434-page anthology is available as a free digital download and as a low-cost paperback (see links below). 100
Reposted by Eric BurinBill Caraher @billcaraher.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I just bought 100 brand new ISBNs and I'm looking for books to put them on. Got ideas? Interested in publishing with a small, cooperative, OA "nano-press"? Want to stick it to Big Academic Publishing? Maybe we can work together! 031
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 12/11/2024If you're interested in the Electoral College or (for educators) discuss it in your courses, please permit me to suggest checking out my "commentary" on the subject. It examines the past, present, and future of the Electoral College. 010
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 31/10/2024Grateful to the ND Monitor for publishing my essay on the Electoral College (it explains why the national popular vote option failed at the Constitutional Convention, why the EC was adopted, & offers a glimpse of a national study/survey I oversaw in Sept. '24). northdakotamonitor.com/2024/10/31/t...northdakotamonitor.comThe past, present and future of the Electoral College • North Dakota MonitorThe United States’ presidential election system has been a source of contention since the delegates to the Constitutional Convention first debated the matter on June 1, 1787. 000
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 31/10/2024While we're working on the second edition of _Picking the President_, check out the the first edition, which in 2017 went from conception to publication in five weeks and since then has proved the little book that could. 010
Eric Burin @ericburin.bsky.social · 17/09/2024For Constitution Day, here's a Special Preview of the forthcoming 2nd edition of the Picking the President. This "sneak peek" features nearly three dozen resources that illuminate the creation, ratification, and evolution of the "Electoral College." It's free to download, as will be the full volume. 011
Reposted by Eric Burinmarkcorrea.bsky.social @markcorrea.bsky.social · 24/01/2024This makes me smile. 332592
