Election subversion threatens democratic self-governance. Recently, we have seen election officials try to manipulate the rules after an election, defy accepted legal procedures for dispute resolution, and try to delay results or hand an election to a losing candidate. Such actions, if...

Winner's percentage, a common measure of electoral competition in winner-take-all elections, measures the shift in vote shares required to produce changes in election outcome. Thus, winner's percentage of the vote cast is a logical measure of winner-take-all competition. It treats equally shifts...

What role do States have when the Electoral College disappears? With the enactment of the National Popular Vote on the horizon and an imminent presidential election in which a nationwide popular vote determines the winner, States would continue to do what they have done for hundreds of years —...

In US Presidential elections, each state is assigned a number of electors according to population, and all electors from the 50 states and District of Columbia form the Electoral College. The candidate who wins the majority of electoral votes from the College becomes President. The US...

Many institutional investors rely on a proxy advisory firm to assist them in voting the company proxy and fulfilling their fiduciary responsibility to vote in the interest of beneficial shareholders. The largest and most influential proxy advisory firm is Institutional Shareholder Services...

The traditional view in corporate governance, shareholder primacy, holds that boards and executives should manage corporations with a single-minded focus on increasing financial returns to shareholders. By contrast, advocates of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria and stakeholder...

Shareholder voting is a key part of contemporary American corporate governance. As numerous contemporary battles between corporate management and shareholders illustrate, voting has never been more important. Yet, traditional theory about shareholder voting, rooted in concepts of residual...