The Politics of Disenfranchisement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Disenfranchisement write by Richard K. Scher. This book was released on 2015-03-04. The Politics of Disenfranchisement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We think of our American democracy as being a model for the world--and it has been. But today it compares unfavorably in some respects, especially when it comes to the universal franchise. The right to vote is more conditional and less exercised in the United States than in many other mature democracies. As became clear to all in the presidential election of 2000, when the stakes are high, efforts to define voter eligibility and manage the voting and vote-counting process to the advantage of one's own side are part of hard-ball politics. It is that experience that gave rise to this book. Written by an author with wide expertise on Southern and Florida politics and districting, the book begins with a deceptively simple question--why is it so hard to vote in America? It proceeds, in seven chapters, to examine the ways that some people are formally or effectively disenfranchised, and to review how control of the ballot and the voting process is constrained, manipulated, and contested
Disenfranchising Democracy
Disenfranchising Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disenfranchising Democracy write by David A. Bateman. This book was released on 2018-10-25. Disenfranchising Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disenfranchising Democracy examines the exclusions that accompany democratization and provides a theory of the expansion and restriction of voting rights.
Felony Disenfranchisement in America
Felony Disenfranchisement in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Felony Disenfranchisement in America write by Katherine Irene Pettus. This book was released on 2005. Felony Disenfranchisement in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pettus traces felony disenfranchisement from Athenian democracy to the present. She analyzes the contradiction between present state disenfranchisement practices and voting rights jurisprudence and concludes that American citizens lack equal voting rights: the right to vote for national representatives is trumped by state laws that define felonies and the criteria for disenfranchisement. The majority of the disenfranchised today are African-American, and most felony convictions are drug-related. Nonetheless, drug use and trafficking are equally distributed across demographic groups. The current variation in state laws disenfranchising felons, the lack of standard definitions of felonies, and the racial disparities within the criminal justice system reproduce many of the inequalities of the colonial America, despite the development of federal citizenship and voting rights law since the end of the Civil War.
Criminal Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective
Criminal Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Criminal Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective write by Alec C. Ewald. This book was released on 2009-04-13. Criminal Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book analyzes a contemporary policy question at the nexus of democracy, criminal justice, and constitutional citizenship.
Locked Out
Locked Out - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Locked Out write by Jeff Manza. This book was released on 2008-04-17. Locked Out available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Mr. Manza and Mr. Uggen... wade into one of the most contested empirical debates in political science: How many (if any) recent American elections would have gone differently if all former felons had been allowed to vote?"--The Chronicle of Higher Education. Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen, who understand the vastness of the jailers' reach, follow the story out of the cell and into the voting booth. Locked Out examines how the disenfranchisement of felons shapes American democracyhardly a hypothetical matter in an age of split electorates and hanging chads.... Exacting and fair, their work should persuade even those who come to the subject skeptically that an injustice is at hand.The New York Review of Books. 5.4 million Americans--1 in every 40 voting age adultsare denied the right to participate in democratic elections because of a past or current felony conviction. In several American states, 1 in 4 black men cannot vote due to a felony conviction. In a country that prides itself on universal suffrage, how did the United States come to deny a voice to such a large percentage of its citizenry? What are the consequences of large-scale disenfranchisement--for election outcomes, for the reintegration of former offenders back into their communities, and for public policy more generally? Locked Out exposes one of the most important, yet little known, threats to the health of American democracy today. It reveals the centrality of racial factors in the origins of these laws, and their impact on politics today. Marshalling the first real empirical evidence on the issue to make a case for reform, the authors' path-breaking analysis will inform all future policy and political debates on the laws governing the political rights of criminals.
