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



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Autore: Foley Edward Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ballot battles : the history of disputed elections in the United States / / Edward B. Foley Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-023529-2
0-19-023528-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797855203321
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