Ballot battles : the history of disputed elections in the United States / / Edward B. Foley
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| Autore: |
Foley Edward
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| Titolo: |
Ballot battles : the history of disputed elections in the United States / / Edward B. Foley
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 324.973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Elections - Corrupt practices - United States - History |
| Election monitoring - United States - History | |
| Political corruption - United States - History | |
| Classificazione: | HIS036000LAW108000LAW060000 |
| 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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ballot battles |
| ISBN: | 0-19-023529-2 |
| 0-19-023528-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821471103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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