Bücher von Robert J. Dinkin

The book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the election system in the thirteen colonies. It describes in clear-cut fashion what provincial politics was about, who ran for office and why, how candidates were nominated and elected, how balloting took place, who could and did vote, and why they did so.

Since the middle of the eighteenth century, elections for public office in the United States have generated significant popular interest. He demonstrates how a changing social structure influenced American politics, and, as a result, changed elections, candidates, and campaign techniques.

Dispelling the myth that women became involved in partisan politics only after they obtained the vote, this study uses contemporary newspaper sources to show that women were active in the party struggle long before 1920.

?All important aspects of the electoral process are covered in eight chapters. ... This work, a worthy sequel to the author's Voting in Provincial America, should prove to be an indispensable source to scholars/teachers who are interested in the evolution of the American democratic electoral process. Recommended for acquisition by all academic libraries and those libraries which maintain a collection on the New Nation.?-Choice

From the beginning of the Republic to the controversial outcome in 2000, election day has been a time of great importance-the climax of a multifaceted drama that has escalated and intensified for several months.