The hidden history of the secret ballot / Romain Bertrand, Jean-Louis Briquet, Peter Pels, editors.
| Other author | Bertrand, Romain. |
| Other author | Briquet, Jean-Louis. |
| Other author | Pels, Peter. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006. |
| Description | vii, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: towards a historical ethnography of voting / Romain Bertand, Jean Louis Briquet and Peter Pels -- The secret ballot in nineteenth-century Britain / Frank O'Gorman -- Uses and abuses of the secret ballot in the American age of reform / John Crowley -- 'Chad wars': voting machines and democracy in the United States / Denis Lacorne -- Voting in India: electoral symbols, the party system and the collective citizen / Christophe Jaffrelot -- Imagining elections: modernity, mediation and the secret ballot in late-colonial Tanganyika / Peter Pels -- The engineers of democracy: election monitoring agencies and political changes in post-Suharto Indonesia / Romain Bertrand -- Politics in the village: voting and electoral mobilisation in rural Corsica / Jean-Louis Briquet -- From acclamation to secret ballot: the hybridisation of voting procedures in Mexican-Indian communities / David Recondo -- Commodification of the vote and political subjectivity in Africa: reflections on the case of Benin / Ricahrd Banégas -- Return of the repressed: Indonesia's new order elections revisited / John Pemberton -- Elections in Iran: religion, nation and the public sphere / Mahmoud Alinejad. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9780253219428 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0253219426 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780253349637 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 025334963X (hbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | JF1107 .H538 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |