Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy - Hardcover

Hasen, Richard L.

 
9780300248197: Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300248199 ISBN 13: 9780300248197
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

From noted election law expert Rick Hasen, comes a stark warning on the threats to American democracy in a time of foreign election interference and the coronavirus pandemic
 
As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections. In this timely and accessible book, Richard L. Hasen uses riveting stories illustrating four factors increasing the mistrust. Voter suppression has escalated as a Republican tool aimed to depress turnout of likely Democratic voters, fueling suspicion. Pockets of incompetence in election administration, often in large cities controlled by Democrats, have created an opening to claims of unfairness. Old-fashioned and new-fangled dirty tricks, including foreign and domestic misinformation campaigns via social media, threaten electoral integrity. Inflammatory rhetoric about &;stolen&; elections supercharges distrust among hardcore partisans.
 
Taking into account how each of these threats has manifested in recent years&;most notably in the 2016 and 2018 elections&;Hasen offers concrete steps that need to be taken to restore trust in American elections before the democratic process is completely undermined. This is an indispensable analysis, from the nation&;s leading election-law expert, of the key threats to the 2020 American presidential election.

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Richard L. Hasen is Chancellor&;s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. In 2013 he was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by the National Law Journal, and his previous books include Voting Wars, Plutocrats United, and The Justice of Contradictions.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300248199
ISBN 13 
9780300248197
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
187
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