"As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections. In this timely and accessible book, Richard L. Hasen uses riveting stories illustrating four factors increasing the mistrust. Voter suppressi…
"The synergy of these four factors - voter suppression, pockets of incompetence, foreign and domestic dirty tricks, and incendiary rhetoric - undermines public trust in the fairness and accuracy of American elections and creates high risks for the 2020 elections and beyond."--
"How hackers interfere in our democratic processes -- using Facebook, data mining, micro-targeting, the alt-right, psy-ops and more -- and what we need to do to save democracy for the digital age"--
A study of institutional transformation and changing public and political attitudes toward the redistribution of electoral constituencies in Canada.
Political Parties and Elections presents a comparative analysis of the ways in which advanced industrial democracies - specifically the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand - seek to regulate the activities of political parties in electoral conte…
Passed in 1965 during the height of the Civil Rights movement, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) changed the face of the American electorate, dramatically increasing minority voting, especially in the South. While portions of the Act are permanent, certain provisions were set to expir…