Institutions and the right to vote in America

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Institutions and the right to vote in America

Martha E. Kropf

(Elections, voting, technology)

Palgrave Macmillan, c2016

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book explores how the United States institutions of democracy have affected a citizen's ability to participate in politics. The 2000 election and the ensuing decade of research demonstrated that that the institutions of elections vitally affect participation. This book examines turnout and vote choice, as well as elections as an institution, administration of elections and the intermediaries that affect a citizen's ability to cast a vote as intended. Kropf traces the institutions of franchise from the Constitutional Convention through the 2012 election and the general themes of how institutions have changed increasing, democratization and production federal growth over time in the United States.

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List of Tables and FiguresChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Institutions and the Norms That Help Maintain StabilityChapter 3: Chapter 3: The Multiple Laboratories of DemocracyChapter 4: The Federal Part of the Institution Chapter 5: Acquiring Voting RightsChapter 6: Exercising the Right to VoteChapter 7: Finding the Time and Place to VoteChapter 9: Choosing Voters: Redistricting and Re-ApportionmentChapter 10: Implications of Institutionalism for DemocracySources Cited

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