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Party Ballots, Reform, and the Transformation of America's Electoral System (Hardcover)
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Party Ballots, Reform, and the Transformation of America's Electoral System (Hardcover)
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This book explores the fascinating and puzzling world of
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American elections. It
examines the strategic behavior of nineteenth-century party
politicians and shows how their search for electoral victory led
them to invent a number of remarkable campaign practices. Why were
parties dedicated to massive voter mobilization? Why did
presidential nominees wage front-porch campaigns? Why did
officeholders across the country tie their electoral fortunes to
the popularity of presidential candidates at the top of the ticket?
Erik J. Engstrom and Samuel Kernell demonstrate that the defining
features of nineteenth-century electoral politics were the product
of institutions in the states that prescribed how votes were cast
and how those votes were converted into political offices. Relying
on a century's worth of original data, this book uncovers the
forces propelling the nineteenth-century electoral system, its
transformation at the end of the nineteenth century, and the
implications of that transformation for modern American politics.
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