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Democracy in the States offers a 21st century agenda for election reform in America based on lessons learned in the fifty states. Combining accessibility and rigor, leading scholars of U.S. politics and elections examine the impact of reforms intended to increase the integrity, fairness, and responsiveness of the electoral system. While some of these reforms focus on election administration, which has been the subject of much controversy since the 2000 presidential election, others seek more broadly to increase political participation and improve representation. For example, Paul Gronke (Reed College) and his colleagues study the relationship between early voting and turnout. Barry Burden (University of WisconsinOCoMadison) examines the hurdles that third-party candidates must clear to get on the ballot in different states. Michael McDonald (George Mason University) analyzes the leading strategies for redistricting reform. And Todd Donovan (Western Washington University) focuses on how the spread of OC safeOCO legislative seats affects both representation and participation.Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously observed that OC a single courageous state may, if its citizens

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Author

Bruce E. Cain, Todd Donovan, and Caroline J. Tolbert, editors

Publisher

Brookings Institution Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815701477

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences