Stuffing the Ballot Box

Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform.

List of contents

List of tables and figures; Preface; Introduction; 1. Electoral fraud during indirect and public elections, 1901-12; 2. Institutional change, electoral cycles, and partisanship, 1910-14; 3. Electoral fraud during the public ballot, 1913-23; 4. Institutional change, electoral cycles, and partisanship, 1924-8; 5. Electoral fraud during the secret ballot, 1925-48; 6. Political polarization, electoral reform, and civil war, 1946-9; Conclusion: ballot-rigging and electoral reform in comparative perspective; Index.

Summary

Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform. It focuses on Costa Rica, a country where parties gradually transformed a fraud-ridden political system into one renowned for its stability and fair elections by the mid-twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Fabrice E. Lehoucq, Fabrice Edouard Lehoucq, Ivan Molina
• Assisted by: Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2015
• EAN: 9780521810456
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81045-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 634 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education