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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797855203321

Autore

Foley Edward

Titolo

Ballot battles : the history of disputed elections in the United States / / Edward B. Foley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-19-023529-2

0-19-023528-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (497 p.)

Classificazione

HIS036000LAW108000LAW060000

Disciplina

324.973

Soggetti

Elections - Corrupt practices - United States - History

Election monitoring - United States - History

Political corruption - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--