Peter H. Argersinger is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus, and a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. A graduate of the University of Kansas, he received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of Populism and Politics: William A. Peffer and the People's Party and numerous articles on American political and social history and was the recipient of the 1990 Binkley- Stephenson Award of the Organization of American Historians.

• Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter, 1. American Electoral History: Party Systems and Voting Behavior, 2. Electoral Processes in American Politics, 3. The Value of the Vote: Political Representation in the, Gilded Age, 4. New Perspectives on Election Fraud in the Gilded Age, 5. From Party Tickets to Secret Ballots: The Evolution of the, Electoral Process in Maryland during the Gilded Age, 6. “A Place on the Ballot”: Fusion Politics and Antifusion Laws, 7. Regulating Democracy: Election Laws and Dakota Politics,, 1889-1902, 8. Populists in Power: Public Policy and Legislative Behavior, Index, About the Author