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Primary source materials are a great way for students to experience firsthand a historic event, to more fully understand a pivotal actor or figure, or to explore legislation or a judicial decision. Students leave these readings better prepared to grapple with secondary sources. In fact, they can often support a different interpretation or more critically engage with analysis. This new volume—with 50 documents that include speeches, court cases, letters, diary entries, excerpts from autobiographies, treaties, legislation, regulations and reports, documentary photographs, ad stills, public opinion polls, transcripts, and press releases—is a great starting point for any parties and elections course. Careful editing, pithy headnotes, and discussion questions all enhance this useful reader.
The Massachusetts Australian Ballot Law* (1888)
The Massachusetts Australian Ballot Law* (1888)
- How did the use of party “tickets” strengthen the control of political parties over campaigns and elections?
- How did the Australian-style ballot weaken party influence in campaigns and elections?
In the nineteenth century political parties printed “tickets” that listed all of the candidates endorsed by a ...