Protecting the Ballot (eBook)

How First-Wave Democracies Ended Electoral Corruption

Isabela Mares (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24004-6 (ISBN)

Infos

How reforms limiting electoral misconduct completed the process of democratizationBetween 1850 and 1918, many first-wave democracies in Europe adopted electoral reforms that reduced the incidence of electoral malfeasance. Drawing on analysis of parliamentary deliberations and roll-call votes in France, Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom, Protecting the Ballot explores how these electoral changes came about.Reforms limiting electoral malfeasance came in a variety of forms. Some reforms imposed harsher punishments for bribing or the politicization of state resources during campaigns. Other changes improved electoral secrecy, providing better protection of voters' autonomy. By mandating the presence of candidate representatives supervising electoral operations, reforms also reduced the incidence of electoral fraud. Isabela Mares documents how elite splits facilitated the formation of parliamentary majorities in support of electoral reforms. The political composition of these majorities varied across countries and across issue area, depending on the distribution of political resources and the economic and electoral costs incurred by politicians with opportunities to engage in malfeasance. Unpacking the electoral determinants of the demand for reforms, Mares offers an alternative to theories of democratization that emphasize economic considerations alone.By studying the successful adoption of reforms limiting electoral irregularities in first-wave democratic transitions, Protecting the Ballot sheds light on the opportunities and obstacles for ending electoral wrongdoing in recent democracies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.11.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 19 b/w illus. 8 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: abstention • Anti-clericalism • authoritarianism • ballot • ballot box • Ben Ansell • bipartisanship • blackmail • Bonapartiste • bribery • Catholic Action • centrism • Cleavage (politics) • Clientelism • Conservative Party (UK) • Corn Laws • Corruption • corrupt practices • Crime • Criticism of capitalism • defamation • defection • Deliberation • Democracy Promotion • democratic ideals • Democratization • Dominant-party system • Economic cost • Economic Development • economic interventionism • Economics • Election • Election agent • electoral fraud • electoral reform • Employment • Eugen Richter • Expense • Extortion • Fraud • French nationality law • German People's Party • Gustav Stresemann • Jules Ferry • Kulturkampf • Layoff • Legislation • Legislator • Legitimists • Liberalization • Louis Blanc • Misfeasance • monarchism • Nationalization • Opposition Party • Orléanist • Otto von Bismarck • parliamentary system • Party System • Political Campaign • Political Science • Politician • Politique • Polling agent • polling place • Poor person • poor relief • popular sovereignty • poverty reduction • progressive tax • Radicalization • Radicals (UK) • Realigning election • Republican Congress • revolutions of 1848 • Robert von Puttkamer • safeguard • secret ballot • slowdown • Social Democracy • Socialist Party of France (1902) • Social Transformation • Subsidy • Suffrage • Superiority (short story) • Tax • Tax Incidence • The Political Machine • The Political Process • The Politician (book) • Tories (British political party) • Treating • Two-round system • Universal Suffrage • usurper • Veto • voter registration • Voting • Whigs (British political party) • World War I
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24004-3 / 0691240043
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24004-6 / 9780691240046