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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Keyssar, Alexander. Right to vote. New York : Basic Books, c2000 (OCoLC)606369544 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexander Keyssar |
| ISBN: | 046502968X 9780465029686 |
| OCLC Number: | 44045685 |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-452) and index. |
| Description: | xxiv, 467 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I: The road to partial democracy. In the beginning -- Democracy ascendant -- backsliding and sideslipping -- Part II: Narrowing the portals. Know-nothings, radicals, and redeemers -- The redemption of the north -- Women's suffrage -- Part III: Toward universal suffrage--and beyond. The quiet years -- Breaking barriers -- Conclusion: the project of democracy. |
| Responsibility: | Alexander Keyssar. |
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Abstract:
"Explains the way in which diverse forces including war, class tension, socioeconomic changes, racial and ethnic hostilities, ideological shifts and the dynamics of party competition shaped the expansion and contraction of voting rights over the last two hundred years." -- Jacket.
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- Suffrage -- United States -- History.
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- Électeurs -- Inscription -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Kiesrecht.
- Demokratie.
- Frauenwahlrecht.
- Wahlrecht.
- Wahlverhalten.
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- Élections -- États-Unis.
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- Suffrage -- Etats-Unis -- Histoire.

