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The hidden costs of clean election reform

"By understanding how even good-faith efforts to improve corrupt or flawed electoral practices may impede the democratic process, The Hidden Costs of Clean Election Reform suggests new ways to help prevent future breaches of democracy."--Back inside jacket
Print Book, English, 2008
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2008
xviii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801441158, 0801441153
181602148
When good reforms go bad
Lawmakers : legal disenfranchisement
Election officials and poll workers : administrative exclusion
Parties, candidates, and their agents : partisan demobilization
Civic educators : disciplinary reaction
Remedies