The Politics of Voter Suppression : Defending and Expanding Americans' Right to Vote.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- A Century Foundation Book Series .
- A Century Foundation Book Series .
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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