Unfinished Election of 2000 : Leading Scholars Examine America's Strangest Election

by Rakove, Jack N.

• ISBN13: 9780465068371
• ISBN10: 0465068375
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

The Unfinished Election of 2000 gathers an outstanding group of constitutional and political scholars to address key facets of the most recent election and to show how the events of 2000 fit into a larger historical narrative of American politics and law. Perhaps no other election in U.S. history has left so many disturbing questions about how our political system works--from the very basic mechanics of vote casting to the conclusion, which many believe to have been the result of a politicized U.S. Supreme Court. The Unfinished Election of 2000 is the first book to attempt a true historical judgement and to give readers a better understanding of the election that confused and infuriated the country.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Dangling Questions	xi
Jack N. Rakove
Part One: The Politics of a Presidential Election
``The Leaving It'': The Election of 2000 at the Bar of History	3	(36)
John Milton Cooper
Trust the People: Political Party Coalitions and the 2000 Election	39	(36)
Henry E. Brady
The Right to Vote and Election 2000	75	(30)
Alexander Keyssar
Part Two: The Court and the Constitution
The Supreme Court in Politics	105	(54)
Larry D. Kramer
Equal Protection: Bush v. Gore and the Making of a Precedent	159	(42)
Pamela S. Karlan
The E-College in the E-Age	201	(34)
Jack N. Rakove
Afterword: Can a Coin-Toss Election Trigger a Constitutional Earthquake?	235	(18)
Stephen Holmes
Index	253	(12)
About the Contributors	265