Ballot battles : the history of disputed elections in the United States / Edward B. Foley.
2016
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Author
Title
Ballot battles : the history of disputed elections in the United States / Edward B. Foley.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Call Number
JK1994 .F65 2016
ISBN
9780190235277 (hardback)
0190235276 (hardback)
9780190235284 (ebook)
0190235276 (hardback)
9780190235284 (ebook)
Description
xii, 479 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
40025574529
System Control No.
(OCoLC)920551583
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-466) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Prologue: The Missing Institution of Impartiality
1
Introduction: Understanding the Past for the Sake of the Future
10
1.
Uncertain Vote-Counting in the Founding Era
25
2.
Novelty of Chief Executive Elections
48
3.
Entrenchment of Two-Party Competition
75
4.
Counting Votes at Times of Crisis
98
5.
Hayes v. Tilden: To the Edge of the Constitutional Cliff
117
6.
Gilded Age: An Era of Hypercompetitive Elections
150
7.
Progressive Era: Missed Opportunities at a Time of Reform
178
8.
America in the Middle of Its Century: A Tarnished Ideal
204
9.
Sixties and Their Legacy: The Rise of Democratic Expectations
233
10.
Eighties and Nineties: Reemergence of Intensified Partisanship
257
11.
Florida 2000: Avoiding a Return to the Constitutional Brink
279
12.
After Bush v. Gore: Reinvigorated Demand for Electoral Fairness
306
Conclusion: The Enduring Quest for a Fair Count
337
Appendix: Data on Overtime Elections
363
Notes
377
Index
467