Justin Moeller is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at West Texas A&M, having completed his M.A. from San Diego State University in 2007 and his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 2012. An expert on the formal analysis of constitutional rules, his published work includes co-authored papers in American Politics Research and Public Choice.Ronald F. King is a Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. His advanced degrees are from Oxford and Chicago. The author of four books and more than three dozen journal articles and book chapters, Professor King has received two Fulbright awards and research grants from the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Twentieth Century Fund. He has been awarded the title “Profesor Onorific” by the Political Science faculty at Babeş-Bolyai University in Romania.

• 1. Introduction: Property, Participation, and the Routes to Reform 2. The Politics of Partisan Preemption: Pennsylvania, Georgia, and New Hampshire 3. The Politics of Partisan Cooptation: Delaware, South Carolina, Massachusetts, and Virginia 4. The Politics of Partisan Replacement: Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, and North Carolina 5. The Politics of Partisan Rejection: Rhode Island 6. Strategic Incentives and Franchise Reform: An Event History Analysis 7. Conclusion: The Expansion and Contraction of Democratic Rights Appendix: Overview of Property Restrictions on Suffrage

'Justin Moeller and Ronald F. King have written by far the most searching and persuasive study of a fundamental aspect of the history of American democracy. Political parties, it turns out, were more the creators than the creation of the expanded suffrage, a proposition pertinent to recent and current politics as well as to the early national and antebellum United States. It will quickly become essential reading for anyone who wants to know how America's version of democracy came to be.'—Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, author of The Rise of American Democracy