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Acknowledgments
One Introduction
Part 1: The State of Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout
Two Electoral Federalism and Participation in the American States
Three Twentieth-Century Voter Turnout in the United States
Four A History of Twentieth-Century State Electoral Institutions
Part 2: State and Regional Analyses
Five Exploring the Effect of Electoral Institutions on Twentieth-Century Voter Turnout in the American States
Six Where Are the High Turnout States?
Seven Voting in the Southern States during and after Jim Crow
Eight Conclusion: The Future of Electoral Reform
Appendix A: State-by-State Voter Turnout Rates Compared with the Average National Voter Turnout Rate during Election Years, 1920–2000 (online only:
www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/springer/)
Appendix B: Mississippi Voter Registration Application Form
Appendix C: Descriptive Statistics, Presidential Election Years, 1920–2000
Appendix D: Descriptive Statistics, Nonpresidential Election Years, 1922–98
Notes
Works Cited
Index