Beschreibung:
Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform.
List of tables and figures; Preface; Introduction; 1. Electoral fraud during indirect and public elections, 1901¿12; 2. Institutional change, electoral cycles, and partisanship, 1910¿14; 3. Electoral fraud during the public ballot, 1913¿23; 4. Institutional change, electoral cycles, and partisanship, 1924¿8; 5. Electoral fraud during the secret ballot, 1925¿48; 6. Political polarization, electoral reform, and civil war, 1946¿9; Conclusion: ballot-rigging and electoral reform in comparative perspective; Index.