Overview
- An important contribution to field of election reform, drawing on the author’s multi-year original research
- Aimed at students of elections, voting and voting behavior, public policy, and American politics
- Puts discussion of the franchise in historical context from the Constitutional Convention through today, giving students a thorough grasp of the topic
- Tackles the subject of modern institutions and their effects on voting in 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012
Part of the book series: Elections, Voting, Technology (EVT)
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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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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Martha E. Kropf is Professor of Political Science and Interim Director of the Public Policy Program at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA. She has authored numerous scholarly articles concerning elections, election reform, and voting. She is the coauthor, along with David C. Kimball, of Helping America Vote: The Limits of Election Reform (2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Institutions and the Right to Vote in America
Authors: Martha E. Kropf
Series Title: Elections, Voting, Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-30171-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30169-7Published: 17 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30170-3Published: 26 May 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30171-0Published: 18 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-7610
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7629
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 197
Topics: Electoral Politics, US Politics, Democracy