Ballot battles the history of disputed elections in the United States

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Missing Institution of Impartiality -- Introduction: Understanding the Past for the Sake of the Future -- Chapter One: Uncertain Vote-Counting in the Founding Era -- Chapter Two: The Novelty of Chief Executive Elections -- Chapter...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Foley, Edward B. (VerfasserIn)
Format: UnknownFormat
Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2016
Schlagworte:
Online Zugang:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Missing Institution of Impartiality -- Introduction: Understanding the Past for the Sake of the Future -- Chapter One: Uncertain Vote-Counting in the Founding Era -- Chapter Two: The Novelty of Chief Executive Elections -- Chapter Three: The Entrenchment of Two-Party Competition -- Chapter Four: Counting Votes at Times of Crisis -- Chapter Five: Hayes-Tilden: To the Edge of the Constitutional Cliff -- Chapter Six: The Gilded Age: An Era of Hypercompetitive Elections -- Chapter Seven: The Progressive Era: Missed Opportunities at a Time of Reform -- Chapter Eight: America in the Middle of its Century: A Tarnished Ideal -- Chapter Nine: The Sixties and Their Legacy: The Rise of Democratic Expectations -- Chapter Ten: The Eighties and Nineties: Reemergence of Intensified Partisanship -- Chapter Eleven: Florida 2000: Avoiding a Return to the Constitutional Brink -- Chapter Twelve: After Bush v. Gore: Reinvigorated Demand for Electoral Fairness -- Conclusion: The Enduring Quest for a Fair Count -- Appendix
"The 2000 presidential election, with its problems in Florida, was not the first major vote-counting controversy in the nation's history--nor the last. Ballot Battles traces the evolution of America's experience with these disputes, from 1776 to now, explaining why they have proved persistently troublesome and offering an institutional solution"--
Beschreibung:xii, 479 Seiten
Illustrationen
ISBN:9780190235277