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The Politics of Voter Suppression : Defending and Expanding Americans' Right to Vote.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Century Foundation Book SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801466038
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Politics of Voter SuppressionDDC classification:
  • 324.60973
LOC classification:
  • JK1976
Online resources:
Contents:
The Politics of Voter Suppression -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. The Voter Inclusion Principle -- 2. The Early Years of Vote Suppression -- 3. Conditions and Consequences of the Voting Rights Act -- 4. Vote Suppression Goes National-and Republican -- 5. The Battle over Motor Voter -- 6. The Election of 2000 and Its Fallout -- 7. A Slight Upswing -- 8. Effects on Election Outcomes -- 9. How to Increase Participation -- Epilogue: What Citizens Can Do -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Tova Wang explains how, across the twentieth century, the issue of access to the ballot was transformed from a largely practical matter of electoral advantage into an ideological difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties.
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The Politics of Voter Suppression -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. The Voter Inclusion Principle -- 2. The Early Years of Vote Suppression -- 3. Conditions and Consequences of the Voting Rights Act -- 4. Vote Suppression Goes National-and Republican -- 5. The Battle over Motor Voter -- 6. The Election of 2000 and Its Fallout -- 7. A Slight Upswing -- 8. Effects on Election Outcomes -- 9. How to Increase Participation -- Epilogue: What Citizens Can Do -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Tova Wang explains how, across the twentieth century, the issue of access to the ballot was transformed from a largely practical matter of electoral advantage into an ideological difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties.

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