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Why Americans still don't vote : and why politicians want it that way / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward.

Title
Why Americans still don't vote : and why politicians want it that way / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward.
Author
Piven, Frances Fox.
Publication
Boston : Beacon Press, c2000.

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Cloward, Richard A.
Description
viii, 348 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
  • "Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward were key players in the long battle to reform voter registration laws that finally resulted in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (also known as the motor voter law). When Why Americans Don't Vote was first published in 1988, this battle was still raging, and their book a fiery salvo. It demonstrated that the twentieth century had seen a concerted effort to restrict voting by immigrants and blacks through a combination of poll taxes, literacy tests, and unwieldy voter registration requirements."
  • "Why Americans Still Don't Vote takes the story up to the present. Analyzing the results of voter registration reform and drawing compelling historical parallels, Piven and Cloward reveal why neither of the major parties has made a concerted effort to appeal to the interests of the newly registered - and thus why Americans still don't vote."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Poor > Political activity > United States
  • Poor > United States > Political activity
  • Voter registration > United States
  • Voting > United States > Abstention
Note
  • Revised and updated ed. of Why Americans don't vote / Frances Fox Piven.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-326) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Does voting matter? -- Why nonvoting? -- The mobilization and demobilization of the nineteenth-century electorate -- How demobilization was accomplished -- The New Deal party system: partial remobilization -- The decline of the New Deal party system -- The welfare state and voter registration mobilization -- Party competition and electoral mobilization -- Barriers or mobilization? The debate over nonvoting -- The states as laboratories of democracy -- Federal reform -- Remobilization?
ISBN
0807004499 (pa)
LCCN
^^^00039770^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library