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If the Electoral College is a racist relic, why has it endured?
Podcast |
PolicyCast
Publisher |
Harvard University
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Education
Publication Date |
Sep 15, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:32:09

This is the first episode of PolicyCast's 2020-2021 season. 

Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. An historian by training, he specializes in the exploration of historical problems that have contemporary policy implications.

In this episode, Professor Keyssar discusses his new book: "Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?" (Harvard University Press, 2020)  He is also the author of the widely-read book: "The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States" (Basic Books, 2000), for which he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

PolicyCast is hosted by Thoko Moyo, the associate dean for communications at Harvard Kennedy School. 

The podcast is produced and engineered by Ralph Ranalli and co-produced by Susan Hughes. 

The one constant in the history of voting rights in America, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Alex Keyssar says, is that no law has ever been passed to restrict the voting rights of upper-middle-class white men. Other than that, he says, the history of access to suffrage has been a very mixed bag. This November, issues of voter disenfranchisement will once again occupy center stage: including voter list purges, attacks on voting by mail, and physical barriers to the polls, ones both man-made and pandemic-related. And looming over it all is the 230-year-old institution of the Electoral College. The title of Professor Keyssar’s new book asks the obvious question: “Why Do We Still Have an Electoral College?” The answer, he says, is complex — a mix of partisan politics, constitutional law, and structural racism.

This is the first episode of PolicyCast's 2020-2021 season. 

Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. An historian by training, he specializes in the exploration of historical problems that have contemporary policy implications.

In this episode, Professor Keyssar discusses his new book: "Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?" (Harvard University Press, 2020)  He is also the author of the widely-read book: "The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States" (Basic Books, 2000), for which he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

PolicyCast is hosted by Thoko Moyo, the associate dean for communications at Harvard Kennedy School. 

The podcast is produced and engineered by Ralph Ranalli and co-produced by Susan Hughes. 

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