Rethinking the Vote

• I. INTRODUCTION ; A Tale of Two Democracies ; II. PROBLEMS THAT MIGHT NEED FIXING ; Election Reform: The U.S. News Media's Response to the Mistakes Of Election 2000 ; Counting Ballots and the 2000 Election: What Went Wrong? ; An Unrecognized Need for Ballot Reform: The Effects of Candidate Name Order on Election Outcomes ; Empirically Evaluating the Electoral College ; III. WAYS TO FIX THE PROBLEMS ; Bush v. Gore and Federalism ; Federal Election Authority: Jurisdiction and Mandates ; Congressional Compromise on Election Reform: A Look Backward and Forward ; Do Institutions Matter? The Consequences of Electoral Reform for Political Participation ; IV. SHOULD THE PROBLEM BE FIXED? ; Cleavage and Consensus: The Public and Election Reform ; Why Electoral Reform Has Failed: If You Build it, Will They Come? ; After the Storm: The Uses, Normative Implications and Unintended Consequences of Voting Reform Research in Post-Bush v. Gore Equal Protection Challenges ; A Tale of Two Worlds ; The Paradox of Mass Democracy ; V. POSTSCRIPT ; Keeping Hope Alive

"This is a fine collection, stimulated by the debacle of the 2000 Presidential election and the ensuing litigation that culminated in Bush v. Gore, of articles dealing with election reform. The book has academic depth, but also many practical suggestions. The variety of perspectives and the distinction of the authors are notable."-Richard A. Posner, Judge, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and University of Chicago Law School "In this thought-provoking collection of essays, a diverse group of eminent scholars, journalists, government officials, and other experts in elections provide stimulating new perspectives on the importance and vulnerability of the vote in the United States. The strong interdisciplinary and comparative focus of Rethinking the Vote guarantees that it will influence scholarship in a variety of fields and policy at all levels of government. The timeliness of its subject matter and excellent selection of topics ensure that it will contribute not only to academic scholarship, but it will also shape the views of legislators and editorial writers and attract the interest of citizens trying to put the 2000 election in a larger context."-Elizabeth Garrett, Professor of Law, University of Chicago