The politics of voter suppression : defending and expanding Americans' right to vote / / Tova Andrea Wang.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Wang, Tova Andrea.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xviii, 197 p.
• Notes: "A Century Foundation book."

"Tova Wang explains how, across the twentieth century, the issue of access to the ballot was transformed from a largely practical matter of electoral advantage into an ideological difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties."--Publisher's Web site.

Table of Contents

• The voter inclusion principle
• The early years of vote suppression
• Conditions and consequences of the Voting Rights Act
• Vote suppression goes national and Republican
• The battle over Motor Voter
• The election of 2000 and its fallout
• A slight upswing
• Effects on election outcomes
• How to increase participation
• Epilogue : what citizens can do.