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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-466) and index.
• 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.
• Introduction: Understanding the past for the sake of the future — Uncertain vote-counting in the founding era — The novelty of chief executive elections — The entrenchment of two-party competition — Counting votes at times of crisis — Hayes v. Tilden : to the edge of the constitutional cliff — The gilded age: an era of hypercompetitive elections — The progressive era : missed opportunities at a time of reform — America in the middle of its century : a tarnished ideal — The sixties and their legacy : the rise of democratic expectations — The eighties and nineties : reemergence of intensified partisanship — Florida 2000 : avoiding a return to the constitutional brink — After Bush v. Gore : reinvigorated demand for electoral fairness — Conclusion: The enduring quest for a fair count.

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• Elections — Corrupt practices — United States — History.
• Contested elections — United States.
• Election law — United States.
• LAW / Legal History. bisacsh
• Election monitoring. fast (OCoLC)fst00904316
• Political corruption. fast (OCoLC)fst01069240
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as ‘male.’ In doing so, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed is the first book to consider how and why the amendment’s authors made this decision. Free takes readers into the pre- and postwar fights over precisely who should have the right to vote. Free demonstrates that all men, black and white, were the ultimate victors of these fights, as gender became the single most important marker of voting rights during Reconstruction — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction : we, the people — The white man’s government — Manhood and citizenship — The family politic — The rights of men — That word male — White women’s rights — Conclusion : by reason of race.

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• Women — Suffrage — United States — History — 19th century.
• African Americans — Suffrage — History — 19th century.
• Suffrage — United States — History — 19th century.
• Womens rights — United States — History — 19th century.;United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment.;United States — Politics and government — 19th century.;Constitution (United States) fast (OCoLC)fst01356075;African Americans — Suffrage. fast (OCoLC)fst00799713;Politics and government. fast (OCoLC)fst01919741;Suffrage. fast (OCoLC)fst01137187;Women — Suffrage. fast (OCoLC)fst01176996;Womens rights. fast (OCoLC)fst01178818
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• 1800 – 1899 fast

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-240) and index.
• Prelude to Populism — The Great Dakota Boom and the farmers of the plains, 1878-1885 — The Dakota Farmers’ Alliance: social, educational, and financial programs, 1886-1893 — Alliance politics and the drive for statehood, 1886-1889 — Emergence of the independents, 1889-1891 — The People’s Party, 1890-1892 — Fusion and financial issues, 1893-1895 — The climax of Populism, 1895-1897 — A Populist administration, 1897-1898 — The second Lee administration and the end of the Populist era, 1899-1900 — The Populists and their reforms, 1900 and beyond — Conclusion.

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Part of the series Longman classics in political science.
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• Pearson Education. –T.p. verso.
• Originally published: 1993.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-325) and index.

Subjects:

• Political participation — United States.
• Elections — United States.
• United States — Politics and government — 20th century.

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• You gotta believe — Winning again — Our unbiased political media — Immigration: Good walls make good neighbors — Foreign policy: Fighting for peace — Education: A failing grade — The energy debate: A lot of hot air — Health care is making us all sick — It’s still the economy, stupid — Nice guys can finish first — Lucky to be an American — The right to bear arms — Our infrastructure is crumbling — Values — A new game in town — Teaching the media dollars and sense — A tax code that works — Making America great again — My personal financials.
• Donald Trump outlines how a crippled America could be restored to greatness. The book explores Trump’s view on key issues including the economy, big CEO salaries and taxes, healthcare, education, national security, and social issues. Of particular interest is his vision for complete immigration reform, beginning with securing the borders and putting American workers first.

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• Trump, Donald, 1946-
• Economic policy.
• United States — Politics and government — 2009-
• United States — Economic policy — 2009-
• Economic policy. fast (OCoLC)fst00902025
• Political and social views. fast (OCoLC)fst01353986
• Politics and government. fast (OCoLC)fst01919741
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• Since 2009 fast

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index.
• Why public funding? — Strategic candidates and public funding — Campaign time — Voting behavior — Candidate quality — Ideology and partisan participation — Clean elections at the Supreme Court — Conclusion : reform in the future.
• Text in English.

Subjects:

• Campaign funds — United States.
• Political campaigns — United States.
• Elections — United States.
• United States — Politics and government — 21st century.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• USA. (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd
• 2000 – 2099 fast

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• At a time when the word socialist is but one of numerous political epithets that are generally divorced from the historical context of America’s political history, The Socialist Party of America presents a new, mature understanding of America’s most important minor political party of the twentieth century. From the party’s origins in the labor and populist movements at the end of the nineteenth century, to its heyday with the charismatic Eugene V. Debs, and to its persistence through the Depression and the Second World War under the steady leadership of America’s conscience, Norman Thomas, The Socialist Party of America guides readers through the party’s twilight, ultimate demise, and the successor groups that arose following its collapse. Based on archival research, Jack Ross’s study challenges the orthodoxies of both sides of the historiographical debate as well as assumptions about the Socialist Party in historical memory. Ross similarly covers the related emergence of neoconservatism and other facets of contemporary American politics and assesses some of the more sensational charges from the right about contemporary liberalism and the radicalism of Barack Obama. — Provided by publisher.
• A complete history of the Socialist Party of America, beginning with the roots of American Marxism in the nineteenth century — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• The roots of American Socialism (1876-1892) — Populism and beyond (1893-1900) — The party is born (1901-1904) — The fate of American labor (1905-1909) — The triumph of Progressivism (1910-1912) — Calm before the storm (1913-1916) — The terror (1917-1918) — Fatal alienation (1919-1920) — A new hope (1921-1924) — Changing of the guard (1925-1929) — Depression and renaissance (1930-1933) — The two-front Putsch (1934-1936) — American Catalonia (1937-1940) — Not to the swift (1941-1948) — The twilight of American Socialism (1949-1963) — Out with the old, in with the new (1964-1972) — Social Democrats USA and the rise of Neoconservatism — Democratic Socialists of America and the roots of post-Cold War Liberalism — Socialist Party USA and the radical left since 1973 — After exceptionalism — Appendix A. National officers of the Socialist Party — Appendix B. Socialist elected officeholders, 1897-1960 — Appendix C. Presidential vote totals.

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• Socialist Party (U.S.) — History.
• Socialist Party (U.S.) fast (OCoLC)fst00546868
• Socialists — United States — History.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages S1-S7) and index.
• Part I: In search of the two congresses — 1. The two congresses — 2. Evolution of the modern Congress — Part II: A congress of ambassadors — 3. Going for it : recruitment and candidacy — 4. Making it : the electoral game — 5. Being there : Hill styles and home styles — Part III: A deliberative assembly of one nation — 6. Leaders and parties in Congress — 7. Committees : workshops of Congress — 8. Congressional rules and procedures — 9. Decision making in Congress — Part IV: Policy making and change in the two Congresses — 10. Congress and the President — 11. Congress and the bureaucracy — 12. Congress and the courts — 13. Congress and organized interests — 14. Congress, budgets, and domestic policy making — 15. Congress and national security policies — Part V: Conclusion — 16. The two congresses and the American people.

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• United States. Congress.
• Legislators — United States.

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Part of the series Understanding politics;Understanding politics.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects:

• United States — Politics and government.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155

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• White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans’ core political identities, policy preferences, and electoral choices, and that these concerns are at the heart of a large-scale defection of whites from the Democratic to the Republican Party.Abrajano and Hajnal demonstrate that this political backlash has disquieting implications for the future of race relations in America. White Americans’ concerns about Latinos and immigration have led to support for policies that are less generous and more punitive and that conflict with the preferences of much of the immigrant population. America’s growing racial and ethnic diversity is leading to a greater racial divide in politics. As whites move to the right of the political spectrum, racial and ethnic minorities generally support the left. Racial divisions in partisanship and voting, as the authors indicate, now outweigh divisions by class, age, gender, and other demographic measures.White Backlash raises critical questions and concerns about how political beliefs and future elections will change the fate of America’s immigrants and minorities, and their relationship with the rest of the nation — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• Voting — United States.
• Political participation — United States.
• Race.
• United States — Emigration and immigration.

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