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UNINA9910797855203321 |
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Foley Edward |
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Ballot battles : the history of disputed elections in the United States / / Edward B. Foley |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-023529-2 |
0-19-023528-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (497 p.) |
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HIS036000LAW108000LAW060000 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Elections - Corrupt practices - United States - History |
Election monitoring - United States - History |
Political corruption - United States - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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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. |
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"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 |
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