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Counting Every Vote - The Most Contentious Elections in American History (Hardcover)
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Counting Every Vote - The Most Contentious Elections in American History (Hardcover)
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List price R680
Loot Price R567
Discovery Miles 5 670
You Save R113 (17%)
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The 2000 U.S. presidential election was not the first in American
history that was exceptionally close or that produced highly
disputed results. In 1801 Thomas Jefferson became president after
an electoral gridlock, but only after Congress voted three dozen
times to select the president. Charles Hughes lost in 1916 to
Woodrow Wilson by losing in California by some 3,000 votes. In 1960
John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon by only a fraction of a
percentage point in a very controversial election. What would have
happened if Aaron Burr, rather than Jefferson, had become
president? What if Nixon had defeated Kennedy in 1960? What if Al
Gore had become president in 2001 instead of George W. Bush? Using
six cases, political scientists Robert Dudley and Eric Shiraev
argue that engaging in this counterfactual exercise provides an
excellent opportunity to revisit history, learn from its lessons,
and relate to contemporary elections. The authors’ aim is not to
prove that their suggested scenarios would have certainly happened,
but merely to show that they might have, and therein lies the
importance of voting. Every vote counts, and the consequences can
be enormous.
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