Title: Political reform and the American experiment /
Authors: Crotty, William J.
Publisher: Crowell,
Year: 1977
Subjects: Voting United States; Campaign funds United States; Political parties United States; Voter registration United States.
Contents: Part I: Registration and Voting -- The Evolution of the Franchise -- The Early Times -- Suffrage in Colonial Times -- The American Revolution and Suffrage: A Transitional Period -- The Constitutional Debate -- The Seeds of Change -- The Westward Expansion -- The State Constitutional Conventions: 1800 to 1850 -- The Foreign Influx -- The Literacy Test and the Immigrants -- The Immigrants in the West -- The Suffragettes -- Suffrage and Blacks -- Voting Rights and the Courts -- Residency Requirements and Voting -- The Contemporary Scene -- Voters and Nonvoters: Who Gets Left Out? And Why? -- Nonvoting in the Period 1952 to 1972 -- Nonvoters: Who Are They? -- Persistence in Voting Patterns -- A Mass Media, Mass Participation Approach -- Public Information Campaigns -- Administering Registration Laws -- An Experiment in Increasing Participation: The Voting Rights Acts -- The Post-1970 Period -- Registration Systems: Some Alternative Ways -- Enrolling Procedures in Other Nations --^