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Public Opinion Quarterly 2004 68(4):623-640; doi:10.1093/poq/nfh043
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Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 68 No. 4 © American Association for Public Opinion Research 2004; all rights reserved.

Trends

Electoral Reform

Costas Panagopoulos

COSTAS PANAGOPOULOS is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at New York University, where he is also executive director of the Political Campaign Management Program. The author completed research for this project while he was Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University. The author gratefully acknowledges Robert Y. Shapiro, Peter Miller, Gary Langer, and Jared Grant for their generous guidance, assistance, and support.

Address correspondence to the author; e-mail: costas@post.harvard.edu.

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Over the past fifty years, a variety of proposals to reform the electoral system in the United States have been submitted to the public for consideration. Following the 2000 presidential election, reformers renewed calls for a reexamination of the structure of electoral institutions and processes in the United States and worked to focus the public’s attention on electoral reform. An assessment of developments in public opinion dynamics about electoral reform reveals that Americans have expressed support for some—although not all—reforms.

To systematically study Americans’ opinions on these issues, I have gathered data that span the course of the past half century. This article documents change and stability in opinions about a wide range of electoral reforms. It describes the public’s attitudes about broad issues like the electoral college, the public financing of elections, and the nomination process, as well as more specific and technical concerns such as voting procedures. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Electoral and Campaign Reform in Context
 

   Electoral College
 

   Presidential Nomination Process
 

   Public Financing of Campaigns
 

   Campaign and Election Practices
 

   Standard Voting Procedures
 

   Conclusion
 

   Appendix
 
SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS
OVERALL ELECTORAL AND CAMPAIGN REFORM
ELECTORAL COLLEGE
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION PROCESS
PUBLIC FINANCING
CAMPAIGN AND ELECTION PRACTICES
STANDARD VOTING PROCEDURES


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