Overview
- Presents comprehensive overview of the current field of election administration with contributions by both distinguished practitioners and academics
- Adds to the extant knowledge on voting equipment, accessibility, security, election administrators, and the roles of different levels of government in conducting elections
- Provides a platform for new research in the field of election sciences as it evolves and changes
Part of the book series: Elections, Voting, Technology (EVT)
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Stakeholders in the operation of American elections are keenly focused on policy reform, resource allocation, administrative professionalism, voter access and accessibility, equipment security, and system integrity. The Future of Election Administration is an edited volume that gathers the perspectives of today’s most forward-thinking practitioners and experts of policy, advocacy, and research about the importance of particular election practices, the professional and operational challenges that election administrators and voter registrars face, and emerging issues in the field. Through its combination of multiple perspectives to describe, analyze, and anticipate key dynamics and dilemmas as well as its emphasis on the practical aspects of administration, this book makes a unique contribution to the election administration literature.
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Keywords
- Election administration
- Election reform
- Polling Accessibility
- 50-state portability
- Voter verification
- Straight ticket verification
- Voting technology
- Election assistance commission
- Federal Voting Assistance Program
- Felon disenfranchisement
- Mail balloting
- Online voter registration
- Help America Vote Act
- Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act
- Provisional ballots
- Electronic pollbooks
- National Voter Registration Act
- Voter fatigue
- Election Integrity
- Election Security
Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Current Challenges and the Future of Access and Participation
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Meeting the Challenges of Professionalism
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Emerging and Future Issues in Election Administration
Reviews
“Both The Future of Election Administration and its open access companion, The Future of Election Administration: Cases and Conversations provide a much-needed framework for organizing the multiple stakeholders in the field of election science. Combined, they highlight the pressing questions in the field, the progress that has been made, the experiences on the ground that make adifference, and the future challenges we face.” (Lonna Atkeson, Professor, Political Science, University of New Mexico, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mitchell Brown is Professor of Political Science at Auburn University, USA. Her scholarship focuses on empowerment processes for marginalized groups, including electoral strategies and program evaluation for public and nonprofit organizations. She contributes regularly to the CERA program.
Kathleen Hale is Professor of Political Science and director of the graduate program in election administration at Auburn University, USA. She serves on the Election Center’s Board of Directors and the MIT Data and Election Sciences Lab advisory board, and directs Auburn University faculty in CERA, the national professional certification program for election officials established in partnership with the Election Center.
Bridgett A. King is Assistant Professor of Political Science and director of the MPA Program at Auburn University, USA. Her research focuses on political participation, voter disenfranchisement, and citizen perceptions of the electoral system. Formerly a voting rights researcher in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, she contributes regularly to the CERA program.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Future of Election Administration
Editors: Mitchell Brown, Kathleen Hale, Bridgett A. King
Series Title: Elections, Voting, Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14947-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14946-8Published: 08 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14947-5Published: 25 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2945-7610
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7629
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 361
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations, US Politics, Public Administration, Governance and Government