Joanne Meyerowitz

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Joanne Meyerowitz | Elections, Conflict, and Democracy: An Introduction | The Journal of American History, 88.2 | The History Cooperative

Elections, Conflict, and Democracy: An Introduction

Late last fall, during the prolonged presidential election, the Journal's editors noticed a handful of scholars, including a few stray historians, on the television news shows, and we imagined that some of our colleagues might have more to say than a thirty-second sound bite permitted. Thus we invited several historians to participate in this round table, "Elections, Conflict, and Democracy." We selected scholars from different subfields of United States history—political history, legal history, intellectual history—to write short pieces that would provide historical perspective on the unusual turn of events in the 2000 election. As we hoped, our panel of experts sent us five strikingly different essays on the history of elections, democracies, partisan politics, court decisions, and political rhetoric. . . .

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