ISBN:
9781137301710
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (IX, 197 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
Elections, Voting, Technology
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Political Science and International Studies
Parallel Title:
Druckausg.
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
Keywords:
Political science
;
Political Science and International Relations
;
Democracy
;
Elections
;
United States Politics and government
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Institutions and the Norms That Help Maintain Stability -- Chapter 3: Chapter 3: The Multiple Laboratories of Democracy -- Chapter 4: The Federal Part of the Institution -- Chapter 5: Acquiring Voting Rights -- Chapter 6: Exercising the Right to Vote -- Chapter 7: Finding the Time and Place to Vote -- Chapter 9: Choosing Voters: Redistricting and Re-Apportionment -- Chapter 10: Implications of Institutionalism for Democracy -- Sources Cited
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-137-30171-0
URL:
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