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Stuffing the ballot box : = fraud, electoral reform, and democratization in Costa Rica /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Stuffing the ballot box :/ Fabrice E. Lehoucq, Iván Molina.
Reminder of title:	fraud, electoral reform, and democratization in Costa Rica /
Author:	Lehoucq, Fabrice Edouard,
other author:	Molina Jiménez, Iván,
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Elections - History - 20th century. - Costa Rica -
Subject:	Costa Rica - Politics and government. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511510250
ISBN:	9780511510250 (ebook)

Stuffing the ballot box : = fraud, electoral reform, and democratization in Costa Rica /
Lehoucq, Fabrice Edouard,1963-

Stuffing the ballot box :fraud, electoral reform, and democratization in Costa Rica /Fabrice E. Lehoucq, Iván Molina. - 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in comparative politics. - Cambridge studies in comparative politics..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Political competition and electoral fraud, 1901-19121.

Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform. It focuses on Costa Rica, a country where parties gradually transformed a fraud-ridden political system into one renowned for its stability and fair elections by the mid-twentieth century. Lehoucq and Molina draw upon a unique database of more than 1,300 accusations of ballot-rigging to show that parties denounced fraud where electoral laws made the struggle for power more competitive. They explain how institutional arrangements generated opportunities for executives to assemble legislative coalitions to enact far-reaching reforms. This book also argues that nonpartisan commissions should run elections and explains why splitting responsibility over election affairs between the executive and the legislature is a recipe for partisan rancour and political conflict. Stuffing the Ballot Box will interest a broad array of political and social scientists, constitutional scholars, historians, election specialists and policy-makers interested in electoral fraud and institutional reform.

ISBN: 9780511510250 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1440616
Elections
--History--Costa Rica--20th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

800715
Costa Rica
--Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: JL1458 / .L44 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 324.97286/05

Stuffing the ballot box : = fraud, electoral reform, and democratization in Costa Rica /
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