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Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way (New Democracy Forum) Paperback – September 22, 2000

by Frances Fox Piven (Author), Joshua Cohen (Editor)

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Americans take for granted that ours is the very model of a democracy. At the core of this belief is the assumption that the right to vote is firmly established. But in fact, the United States is the only major democratic nation in which the less well-off, the young, and minorities are substantially underrepresented in the electorate.

Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward were key players in the long battle to reform voter registration laws that finally resulted in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (also known as the Motor Voter law). When Why Americans Don't Vote was first published in 1988, this battle was still raging, and their book was a fiery salvo. It demonstrated that the twentieth century had witnessed a concerted effort to restrict voting by immigrants and blacks through a combination of poll taxes, literacy tests, and unwieldy voter registration requirements.

Why Americans Still Don't Vote brings the story up to the present. Analyzing the results of voter registration reform, and drawing compelling historical parallels, Piven and Cloward reveal why neither of the major parties has tried to appeal to the interests of the newly registered-and thus why Americans still don't vote.

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Intriguing and troubling. . . . A challenging and informative introduction to one of the burning questions of contemporary American politics.--T. R. Reid, The Washington Post Book World

"It is hard to read [Piven-Cloward] without recognizing that our system, if not entirely 'broke,' has been historically skewed in favor of more privileged voters and vote influencers." --Garry Wills, The New York Review of Books

"An important and fascinating analysis." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Genuinely illuminating, offering a clear picture to reformers of what they are up against, and why." --Walter Dean Burnham, The New Republic

"Piven and Cloward have written the definitive work on voter registration and its implications for our politics, our elections and our government." --John W. Douglas, Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author

Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward are coauthors of Regulating the Poor, The Politics of Turmoil, Poor People's Movements, and many other books. They are the corecipients of the 2000 American Sociological Association Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press; Revised, Updated, Subsequent edition (September 22, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807004499
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807004494
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.08 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.85 x 8.5 inches

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Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology

at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and the author of the bestselling Poor People’s Movements, Regulating the Poor, and Why Americans Don’t Vote (with the late

Richard A. Cloward), as well as The War At Home, Keeping Down the Black Vote, and many other books. She lives in New York City.

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Jason W. Atwell

interesting discussion of decreasing voter participation

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2002

Great book revolving around the Moter Voter legislation passed in the 1990's. Piven and Cloward discuss the declining voter participation in the American democracy, attributing that decline to the parties demobilization of the American electorate and inability to remobilize. The authors argue that the declining voter participation is related to the lack of adequate and effective legislation, declining union membership, declining worker benefits and bargaining ability with free trade, and the exploitation of one class against another. The authors assert that the Democratic and Republican parties have no intention in actually remobilizing the electorate as new voters will change the current political game and add uncertainty to the incumbents reelections.

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