Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing the Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France PDF
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DisenfranchisingDemocracy ThefirstwaveofdemocratizationintheUnitedStates–theremovalof property and taxpaying qualifications for the right to vote – was accompanied by the disenfranchisement of African American men, with the political actors most supportive of the former also the most insistentuponthelatter.TheUnitedStatesisnotuniqueinthisrespect: other canonical cases of democratization also saw simultaneous expansions and restrictions of political rights, yet this pattern has never been fully detailed or explained. Through case studies of the USA,theUK,andFrance,DisenfranchisingDemocracyoffersthefirst cross-nationalaccountoftherelationshipbetweendemocratizationand exclusion. It develops a political institutional perspective to explain their co-occurrence, focusing on the politics of coalition building and the visions that political community coalitions advance in support of theirgoals.Batemanshedsnewlightondemocratization,connectingit totheconstructionofcitizenshipandculturalidentities. David A. Bateman is Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is co-author of Southern Nation: Congress and White SupremacyAfterReconstruction(2018). Disenfranchising Democracy Constructing the Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France DAVID A. BATEMAN CornellUniversity,NewYork UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314 321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi 110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06 04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108470193 doi:10.1017/9781108556323 ©DavidA.Bateman2018 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2018 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabySheridanBooks,Inc. AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData names:Bateman,DavidA.,author. title:Disenfranchisingdemocracy:constructingtheelectorateintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,andFrance/DavidA.Bateman. description:NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2018. identifiers:lccn2018018157|isbn9781108470193(hardback)|isbn 9781108455459(paperback) subjects:lcsh:Democratization UnitedStates.|Democratization GreatBritain.| Democratization France.|Suffrage UnitedStates.|Suffrage GreatBritain.| Suffrage France. classification:lccjk1764.b3852018|ddc320.973 dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018018157 isbn9781108470193Hardback isbn9781108455459Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthirdpartyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. ToMary,Robert,Kate,Chris,Justin, Mary-Alma,andMartina Contents ListofFigures pageviii ListofTables ix Preface xi 1 ThePuzzleofDemocraticDisenfranchisement 1 part i the united states 2 RevolutionaryDemocracy 43 3 The“MonstrousSpectacle”ofJeffersonianDemocracy 75 4 TheWhiteMan’sRepublic 136 part ii the united kingdom and france 5 TheFalloftheProtestantConstitution 207 6 TheRepublicThroughtheSideDoor 274 Conclusion 327 Index 336 vii Figures 2.1 ApproximateEnfranchisementRates page47 2.2 ChangesinSuffrageQualifications 57 3.1 ChangesinEstimatedEnfranchisementRates 84 3.2 DisenfranchisingStatesandtheDistributionoftheFreeBlack Population,1825 134 4.1 DisenfranchisementandtheBlackAmericanpopulation, TennesseeandNorthCarolina,1834–35 158 4.2 ProbabilityofVotingforBlackdisenfranchisementbyParty 160 4.3 PopulationDistributionin1820 165 4.4 PopulationDistributionin1860 166 4.5 PetitionCampaignsinPennsylvania,1837–38 191 5.1 TheUnreformedElectorate 218 5.2 ApproximateChangeinEnfranchisementin EnglishConstituencies 267 5.3 ClassStructureofEnglishBoroughConstituencies 267 5.4 ApproximateChangeinIrishConstituencies 271 6.1 TheDisenfranchisementofMay1850 283 6.2 Abdal-QadirVotingfortheFrenchEmpire,from theTheIllustratedLondonNews 286 6.3 ModestDisenfranchisementof1875 321 viii Tables 2.1 ClassDistributionofElectedRepresentatives page58 2.2 SupportforAbolitionandBlackVotingRightsin NewYorkState,1785 70 3.1 DemocratizingandDisenfranchisingChanges, 1789–1826 86 3.2 VotingonDisenfranchisementinOhio,1802 107 3.3 VotinginNewYorkConstitutionalConvention,1821 132 ix
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