Title:
Ballot battles : the history of disputed elections in the United States / Edward B. Foley.
Author:
Foley, Edward B.
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Call Number:
JK1994 .F65 2016
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780190235277
Physical Description:
xii, 479 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Understanding the past for the sake of the future -- Uncertain vote-counting in the founding era -- The novelty of chief executive elections -- The entrenchment of two-party competition -- Counting votes at times of crisis -- Hayes v. Tilden : to the edge of the constitutional cliff -- The gilded age: an era of hypercompetitive elections -- The progressive era : missed opportunities at a time of reform -- America in the middle of its century : a tarnished ideal -- The sixties and their legacy : the rise of democratic expectations -- The eighties and nineties : reemergence of intensified partisanship -- Florida 2000 : avoiding a return to the constitutional brink -- After Bush v. Gore : reinvigorated demand for electoral fairness -- The enduring quest for a fair count.
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