Edward Foley

Ballot Battles

The History of Disputed Elections in the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

Perhaps the truest test of a nation's ability govern itself democratically is its ability to count ballots fairly and accurately in competitive, high-stakes elections. Yet from the founding on, America's adherence to this ideal has been distinctly uneven. Edward Foley's Ballot Battles is a sweeping synthesis of the subject, tracing how election controversies evolved over time, from the 1780s to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9780190865955
• ISBN-10: 0190865954
• Artikelnr.: 55753815

Autorenporträt

Edward B. Foley is the Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Chair in Law and Director of Election Law at The Ohio State University College of Law.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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