Institutions and the Right to Vote in America

Martha E. Kropf is Professor of Political Science and Interim Director of the Public Policy Program at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA. She has authored numerous scholarly articles concerning elections, election reform, and voting. She is the coauthor, along with David C. Kimball, of Helping America Vote: The Limits of Election Reform (2012).

• Chapter 1: Introduction .- Chapter 2: Institutions and the Norms That Help Maintain Stability .- Chapter 3: Chapter 3: The Multiple Laboratories of Democracy .- Chapter 4: The Federal Part of the Institution .- Chapter 5: Acquiring Voting Rights .- Chapter 6: Exercising the Right to Vote .- Chapter 7: Finding the Time and Place to Vote .- Chapter 9: Choosing Voters: Redistricting and Re-Apportionment .- Chapter 10: Implications of Institutionalism for Democracy .- Sources Cited.