Elephant in the Voting Booth
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Elephant in the Voting Booth

Robert Kuttner

March 20, 2006

On democratic wrongs both past and present, as told by two books and a new commission study on reform.

Building Confidence in U.S. Elections by The Commission on Federal Election Reform (Carter-Baker Commission) (113 pages, free at american.edu/ia/cfer/report/full_report.pdf)

Three's a Crowd: The Dynamic of Third Parties, Ross Perot, and Republican Resurgence by Ronald B. Rapoport and Walter J. Stone (University of Michigan Press, 296 pages, $29.95)

The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement by Richard M. Valelly (University of Chicago Press, 348 pages, $22.50)

What makes a nation a democracy? Joseph Schumpeter famously concluded that the key criterion is

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