Faculty Book Talk Series featuring Edward B. Foley on Monday March 25, 2024, from 12:10-1:00pm
Please join the James E. Rogers College of Law’s Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library on Monday, March 25 at 12:10 pm, for a talk featuring Professor Edward B. Foley, Distinguished Visitor at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law for the Spring 2024 term and current Guggenheim Fellow, in conversation with Professor Andrew Coan, Associate Dean for Research, Milton O. Riepe Chair in Constitutional Law, and Director of the William H. Rehnquist Center on the Constitutional Structures of Government. They will be discussing Prof. Foley’s forthcoming books, Common Ground Democracy: Constitutional Principles and Election Procedures and Ballot Battles: A History of Disputed Elections in the United States (2nd ed).
A Top-3 Presidential Election System? Americans are hungering for a third major party to compete against the increasingly polarized Republicans and Democrats. Gallup’s most recent poll on the topic, in October, showed 63% saying “a major third party is needed”—the highest percentage Gallup has ever received on this question. The problem is the existing electoral system. The only way to have a competitive third party that almost two-thirds of Americans want is to change that system.
In this book talk event, Distinguished Visiting Election Law Professor Ned Foley will discuss one possible change: a “Top-3” presidential election system that would enable Americans to elect a third-party or independent candidate if a majority of voters prefers such a candidate to the major party nominees. This is one of many urgent issues with the U.S. electoral system discussed in Foley's forthcoming book Common Ground Democracy: Constitutional Principles and Election Procedures. Ned will also discuss his previous book, Ballot Battles: A History of Disputed Elections in the United States (2016), available from our library from OUP ebooks and in print, a second edition of which is forthcoming this year.
This simultaneous in-person and Zoom event is part of the James E. Rogers College of Law Faculty Book Talk Series hosted by the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, and will take place on Monday, March 25, 2024, 12:10-1:00pm, Law Library Classroom 137 and https://arizona.zoom.us/j/85783364212. Lunch will be served for up to 30 people (max capacity for Rm. 137).
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