A list of 10 books about the Electoral College, presented in alphabetical order and compiled using reading lists from libraries and universities, as well as search results on Amazon and Google Books.
A. Presented in Book Title Alphabetical Order | B. Author | C. Year | D. Amazon Best Sellers Rank* | |
1 | After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College (Fourth Edition) | John C. Fortier Director of Governmental Studies at the Bipartisan Policy Center; previously a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute | 2020 | #2,385,906 |
2 | Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College | Jesse Wegman Member of the New York Times editorial board | 2020 | #39,932 |
3 | Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College | Eric Burin Professor of History at the University of North Dakota | 2017 | #436,960 |
4 | Presidential Elections and Majority Rule: The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College | Edward B. Foley Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law and director of election law program at Ohio State University | 2020 | #136,927 |
5 | Representation and the Electoral College | Robert M. Alexander Professor of Political Science at Ohio Northern University | 2019 | #684,439 |
6 | Saving the Electoral College: Why the National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy | Robert M. Hardaway Professor of Law at the University of Denver | 2019 | #827,589 |
7 | Taming the Electoral College | Robert W. Bennett Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law and former Dean of the School of Law at Northwestern University | 2006 | #511,702 |
8 | Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? | Alexander Keyssar Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government | 2020 | #89,218 |
9 | Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America (Third Edition) | George C. Edwards III Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies at Texas A&M University | 2019 | #1,038,723 |
10 | Why We Need the Electoral College | Tara Ross Retired lawyer and author of several books defending the electoral college | 2019 | #106,192 |
*The Amazon best sellers rank as of December 2020 for each book is shown in Column D. The ranking is calculated by Amazon using sales and pricing, and changes frequently on Amazon.com. A lower ranking indicates more sales, e.g., a book with a #100 ranking is selling more on Amazon than a book ranked #100,000. Therefore, ranking on Amazon does not necessarily reflect a book’s usefulness or competence on the topic of the Electoral College.