America At The Ballot Box

Author : Richard Franklin Bensel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 052153786X

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The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Richard Franklin Bensel Pdf

During the middle of the nineteenth century, Americans voted in saloons in the most derelict sections of great cities, in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers, or in wooden cabins so isolated that even neighbors had difficulty finding them. Their votes have come down to us as election returns reporting tens of millions of officially sanctioned democratic acts. Neatly arrayed in columns by office, candidate, and party, these returns are routinely interpreted as reflections of the preferences of individual voters and thus seem to unambiguously document the existence of a robust democratic ethos. By carefully examining political activity in and around the polling place, this book suggests some important caveats which must attend this conclusion. These caveats, in turn, help to bridge the interpretive chasm now separating ethno-cultural descriptions of popular politics from political economic analyses of state and national policy-making.

Author : Gareth Davies,Julian E. Zelizer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812291360

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America at the Ballot Box by Gareth Davies,Julian E. Zelizer Pdf

Elections are, and always have been, the lifeblood of American democracy. Often raucous and sharply contentious, sometimes featuring grand debates about the nation's future, and invariably full of dramatic moments, elections offer insight into the character and historical evolution of American politics. America at the Ballot Box uses the history of presidential elections to illuminate American political democracy and its development from the early Republic to the late twentieth century. Some of the contributions in America at the Ballot Box focus on elections that resulted in dramatic political change, including Jefferson's defeat of Adams in 1800, the 1860 election of Lincoln, and Reagan's 1980 landslide victory. Others concentrate on contests whose importance lies more in the way they illuminate the broad, underlying processes of political change, such as the corruption controversy of Cleveland's acrimonious election in 1884 or the advent of television advertising during the 1952 campaign, when Eisenhower defeated Stevenson. Another set of essays takes a thematic approach, exploring the impact of foreign relations, Anglophobia, and political communications over long periods of electoral time. Uniting all of the chapters is the common conviction that elections provide a unique vantage point from which to view the American political system. Ranging from landmark contests to less influential victories and defeats, the essays by leading political historians seek to rehabilitate the historical significance of presidential elections and integrate them into the broader evolution of American government, policies, and politics. Contributors: Brian Balogh, Gareth Davies, Meg Jacobs, Richard R. John, Kevin M. Kruse, Jeffrey L. Pasley, Andrew Preston, Elizabeth Sanders, Bruce J. Schulman, Jay Sexton, Adam I. P. Smith, Sean Wilentz, Julian E. Zelizer.

Author : Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307792846

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The Ballot Box Battle by Emily Arnold McCully Pdf

Illustrated in full color. Just in time for the presidential election comes Caldecott medalist Emily Arnold McCully's stirring tale of a young girl's act of bravery inspired by the great Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is the fall of 1880, and Cordelia is more interested in horse riding than in hearing her neighbor, Mrs. Stanton talk about her fight for women's suffrage. But on Election Day, Mrs. Stanton tells the heart-wrenching story of her childhood. Charged with the story's message, Cordelia determines to go with Mrs. Stanton to the polls in an attempt to vote--above the jeers and taunts of the male crowd. With faces, landscapes, and action scenes brought to life by McCully's virtuosic illustrations, Cordelia's turning-point experience is sure to inspire today's young girls (and boys) everywhere.

Author : Chris Barsanti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 1435170628

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The Ballot Box by Chris Barsanti Pdf

Author : Dov H. Levin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197519912

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Meddling in the Ballot Box by Dov H. Levin Pdf

Why do world powers sometimes try to determine who wins an election in another country? What effects does such meddling have on the targeted elections results? Great powers have attempted for centuries to intervene in elections occurring in other states through various covert and overt methods, with the American intervention in the 2013 Kenyan elections and the Russian intervention in the 2016 US elections being just two recent examples. Indeed, the Americans and the Soviets/Russians intervened in one out of every nine national-level executive elections between 1946 and 2000. Meddling in the Ballot Box is the first book to provide a comprehensive analysis of foreign meddling in elections from the dawn of the modern era to the 2016 Russian intervention in the US election. Dov Levin shows that partisan electoral interventions are usually an "inside job" occurring only if a significant domestic actor within the target wants it. Likewise, a great power will not intervene unless it fears that its interests are endangered by an opposing party or candidate with very different preferences. He also finds that partisan electoral interventions frequently have significant effects on the results--sufficient in many situations to determine the winner. Such interference also tends to be more effective when it is conducted overtly. However, it is usually ineffective, if not counterproductive, when done in a founding election. A revelatory account that explains why major powers have meddled so frequently across the entire postwar era, Meddling in the Ballot Box also provides us with a framework for assessing the cyber-future of interference.

Author : Bev Harris
Publisher : Talion Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015059136021

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Black Box Voting by Bev Harris Pdf

The definitive expose on electronic voting. 328 footnotes. Over 100 cases documented where voting machines miscounted elections, internal memos, details about the source code and programming that controls voting machines used worldwide.

Author : Bob Deitrick,Lew Goldfarb (Lawyer)
Publisher : Advantage Media Group
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781599322889

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Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box by Bob Deitrick,Lew Goldfarb (Lawyer) Pdf

The authors review 80 years of our nation's economic history from the Great Depression and Herbert Hoover, to the Great Recession and George W. Bush. They explain the economic stumbles and triumphs posted by these 13 presidents as CEO's of the American economy.

Author : Coral Celeste Frazer
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books ™
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541572355

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Vote! by Coral Celeste Frazer Pdf

August 18, 2020, marked the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibited states and the US government from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex. See how the 70-year-long fight for women's suffrage was hard won by leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt and others. Learn how their success led into the civil rights and feminist movements of the mid- and late twentieth century, as well as today's #MeToo, #YesAllWomen, and Black Lives Matter movements. In the face of voter ID laws, voter purges, gerrymandering, and other restrictions, Americans continue to fight for equality in voting rights.

Author : Amy L. Stone
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816675470

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Gay Rights at the Ballot Box by Amy L. Stone Pdf

From Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement's fight against anti-gay ballot measures

Author : Kerry Brown
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848138223

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Ballot Box China by Kerry Brown Pdf

Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages in China, with almost a million elections, some three million officials have been elected. The Chinese government believes that this is a step towards `democracy with Chinese characteristics'. But to many involved in them, the elections have been mired by corruption, vote-rigging and cronyism. This book looks at the history of these elections, how they arose, what they have achieved and where they might be going, exploring the specific experience of elections by those who have taken part in them - the villagers in some of the most deprived areas of China.

Author : Gilda R. Daniels
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479811984

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Uncounted by Gilda R. Daniels Pdf

An answer to the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in light of the 2020 presidential election The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered one of the most effective pieces of legislation the United States has ever passed. It enfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters, particularly in the American South, and drew attention to the problem of voter suppression. Yet in recent years there has been a continuous assault on access to the ballot box in the form of stricter voter ID requirements, meritless claims of rigged elections, and baseless accusations of voter fraud. In the past these efforts were aimed at eliminating African American voters from the rolls, and today, new laws seek to eliminate voters of color, the poor, and the elderly, groups that historically vote for the Democratic Party. Uncounted examines the phenomenon of disenfranchisement through the lens of history, race, law, and the democratic process. Gilda R. Daniels, who served as Deputy Chief in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and has more than two decades of voting rights experience, argues that voter suppression works in cycles, constantly adapting and finding new ways to hinder access for an exponentially growing minority population. She warns that a premeditated strategy of restrictive laws and deceptive practices has taken root and is eroding the very basis of American democracy—the right to vote!

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313082146

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From Box Office to Ballot Box by M. Keith Booker Pdf

Given the complexity and expense of making and distributing a film, the process of filmmaking is by its very nature a political process. Moreover, given the power and persuasiveness of the cinema as a medium, film can be a powerful political tool. It should thus come as no surprise that film has had a long and extensive engagement with a variety of political topics, ranging from the actual mechanics of governance to electoral politics, to any number of specific political issues. Through a film-by-film examination of the movies explicitly concerned with American politics and American political issues, From Box Office to Ballot Box provides valuable new insights into our culture's perceptions of various political environments and serves as a witness to the cinema's own complex contribution to the media's coverage of, and relationship to, American politics at large. From Box Office to Ballot Box takes as its subject films exploring the electoral process, the process of governing, and the involvement of the media in both. Separate chapters also deal with films related to specific political issues or phenomena that are particularly relevant to the above three categories, including labor and class, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the other recent conflicts in which the media has played such a large role. Specific films discussed include: Citizen Kane, All the King's Men, The Manchurian Candidate, All the Presidents' Men, The Front, M*A*S*H*, JFK, Nixon, Wag the Dog, Three Kings, Black Hawk Down, The Quiet American, The Contender, and many more.

Author : Terry Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426725

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Whitelash by Terry Smith Pdf

Questions if voters would vote differently if it were illegal to discriminate in voting? How can courts enforce such a prohibition?

Author : Ari Berman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374711498

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Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman Pdf

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2015 A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2015 An NPR Best Book of 2015 Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. Give Us the Ballot tells this story for the first time. In this groundbreaking narrative history, Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American democracy under the VRA and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit voting rights, from 1965 to the present day. The act enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet, fifty years later, we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation, and political power, with lawmakers devising new strategies to keep minorities out of the voting booth and with the Supreme Court declaring a key part of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. Berman brings the struggle over voting rights to life through meticulous archival research, in-depth interviews with major figures in the debate, and incisive on-the-ground reporting. In vivid prose, he takes the reader from the demonstrations of the civil rights era to the halls of Congress to the chambers of the Supreme Court. At this important moment in history, Give Us the Ballot provides new insight into one of the most vital political and civil rights issues of our time.

Author : Gareth Davies,Julian E. Zelizer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812247190

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America at the Ballot Box by Gareth Davies,Julian E. Zelizer Pdf

A chronological collection of essays, America at the Ballot Box uses the history of presidential elections to illuminate both the fundamental character of American political democracy, and its evolution from the early Republic to the late twentieth century.