Ballot battles
Subtitle: the history of disputed elections in the United States
By: Edward B. Foley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9780190235277
Subjects: Corrupt practices; History; Contested elections; Election law; Elections
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-466) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Understanding the past for the sake of the future --; title: Uncertain vote-counting in the founding era --; title: The novelty of chief executive elections --; title: The entrenchment of two-party competition --; title: Counting votes at times of crisis --; title: Hayes v. Tilden : to the edge of the constitutional cliff --; title: The gilded age: an era of hypercompetitive elections --; title: The progressive era : missed opportunities at a time of reform --; title: America in the middle of its century : a tarnished ideal --; title: The sixties and their legacy : the rise of democratic expectations --; title: The eighties and nineties : reemergence of intensified partisanship --; title: Florida 2000 : avoiding a return to the constitutional brink --; title: After Bush v. Gore : reinvigorated demand for electoral fairness -- -- Conclusion:; title: The enduring quest for a fair count.