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The Politics of Voter Suppression : Defending and Expanding Americans' Right to Vote / Tova Wang.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Century Foundation BookPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780801466038
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.60973 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. The Voter Inclusion Principle -- 2. The Early Years of Vote Suppression -- 3. Conditions and Consequences of the Voting Rights Act -- 4. Vote Suppression Goes National—and Republican -- 5. The Battle over Motor Voter -- 6. The Election of 2000 and Its Fallout -- 7. A Slight Upswing -- 8. Effects on Election Outcomes -- 9. How to Increase Participation -- Epilogue: What Citizens Can Do -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms of identification. Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how U.S. election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a new framework for analyzing current laws and policies. The tactics that have been employed to suppress voting in recent elections are not novel, she finds, but rather build upon the strategies used by a variety of actors going back nearly a century and a half. This continuity, along with the shift to a Republican domination of voter suppression efforts for the past fifty years, should inform what we think about reform policy today.Wang argues that activities that suppress voting are almost always illegitimate, while reforms that increase participation are nearly always legitimate. In short, use and abuse of election laws and policies to suppress votes has obvious detrimental impacts on democracy itself. Such activities are also harmful because of their direct impacts on actual election outcomes. Wang regards as beneficial any legal effort to increase the number of Americans involved in the electoral system. This includes efforts that are focused on improving voter turnout among certain populations typically regarded as supporting one party, as long as the methods and means for boosting participation are open to all. Wang identifies and describes a number of specific legitimate and positive reforms that will increase voter turnout.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. The Voter Inclusion Principle -- 2. The Early Years of Vote Suppression -- 3. Conditions and Consequences of the Voting Rights Act -- 4. Vote Suppression Goes National—and Republican -- 5. The Battle over Motor Voter -- 6. The Election of 2000 and Its Fallout -- 7. A Slight Upswing -- 8. Effects on Election Outcomes -- 9. How to Increase Participation -- Epilogue: What Citizens Can Do -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms of identification. Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how U.S. election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a new framework for analyzing current laws and policies. The tactics that have been employed to suppress voting in recent elections are not novel, she finds, but rather build upon the strategies used by a variety of actors going back nearly a century and a half. This continuity, along with the shift to a Republican domination of voter suppression efforts for the past fifty years, should inform what we think about reform policy today.Wang argues that activities that suppress voting are almost always illegitimate, while reforms that increase participation are nearly always legitimate. In short, use and abuse of election laws and policies to suppress votes has obvious detrimental impacts on democracy itself. Such activities are also harmful because of their direct impacts on actual election outcomes. Wang regards as beneficial any legal effort to increase the number of Americans involved in the electoral system. This includes efforts that are focused on improving voter turnout among certain populations typically regarded as supporting one party, as long as the methods and means for boosting participation are open to all. Wang identifies and describes a number of specific legitimate and positive reforms that will increase voter turnout.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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