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In it the authors argue that contrary to conventional wisdom, the dramatic increase in inequality of income in the united states since 1978the richest 1% gaining 256% after inflation while the income of the lower earning. For the ones im going to be taking in school, i will have the school textbook to help me study, but for the other 3 i wont have a textbook, if that matters at all for which test prep book is better. Political analyst steven hill offers up a single answer in his new book, fixing elections its the winnertakeall system of elections. Proportional representation tends to encourage a government with multiple political parties, whereas a winnertakeall system tends to breed a twoparty system.
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The winner take all feature of the electoral college makes it difficult for thirdparty candidates to succeed. The winner take all economy is primarily a result of winner take all politics. What most americans find frustrating about the electoral college is that members have no legal obligation to vote in the way their state tells them to. In an innovative historical departure, hacker and pierson trace the rise of the winner take all economy back to the late 1970s when, under a democratic president and a democratic congress, a major transformation of american politics occurred.
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