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This work contains the updated papers presented at the Conference "How Did They Become Voters? The History of Franchise in Modern European Representational Systems", which examines the basic mechanisms regulating electoral processes in many countries in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Electoral Systems and Social Structures. A Comparative Perspective; R. Romanelli. La nationalisation de la citoyennete civique en France a la fin du XIXe siecle; M. Offerle. Rituel et symbolisme electoraux. Reflexions sur l'experience francaise; Y. Deloye. Les fraudes electorales. Problemes de definition juridique et politique; L. Ihl. Le probleme de la manipulation des elections en Italie; M.S. Piretti. Social and Territorial Representation in Spanish Electoral Systems: 1809-1874; C. Darde, M. Estrada. Vote et decalage de la citoyennete dans les pays andins et meso-americains; A. Annino. Les listes electorales et le processus de nationalisation de la citoyennete au Bresil (1822-1945); L. Bicalho Canedo. Electors and Electoral Districts in Spain, 1874-1936; A. Garrido. Electoral Proceedings in Salazarist Portugal (1926-1974): Formalism and Fraud; M. Loff. Between Korperschaften and Census: Political Representation in the German Vormarz; C. Paolucci. From Corporate to Individual Representation: the Electoral Systems of Austria, 1861,endash 1918; B. Bader-Zaar. How Did They Become Voters: Sweden after 1866; L.I. Andersson. Accommodation and Conflict. Traditional Politics, Religion and Social Relationships in the Dutch Electoral Process; J. Talsma. The Construction and Deconstruction of the U.S. Electorate in the Age of Manhood Suffrage, 1830s-1920s; A. Testi. The Electorate and the Electoral System in Scotland, c1800-c1950; I.G.C. Hutchison. La valeur du vote: les particularites du systeme britannique, 1918-1948; D. Lancien.
