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OverviewWhat happens when we vote? What are we counting when we count ballots? Who decides what an election should look like and what it should mean? And why do so many people believe that some or all elections are rigged? Moving between intellectual history, literary criticism, and political theory, The Electoral Imagination offers a critical account of the decisions before the decision, of the aesthetic and imaginative choices that inform and, in some cases, determine the nature and course of democratic elections. Drawing on original interpretations of George Eliot and Ralph Ellison, Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Arrow, Anthony Trollope and Arthur Koestler, Richard Nixon and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Palm Beach Butterfly Ballot and the Single Transferable Vote, The Electoral Imagination works both to understand the systems we use to move between the one and the many and to offer an alternative to the 'myth of rigging.' Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kent Puckett (University of California, Berkeley)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.670kg ISBN: 9781009206655ISBN 10: 1009206656 Pages: 380 Publication Date: 13 October 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews'Recommended.' S. A. Parker, Choice Author InformationKent Puckett is author of Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (2008), War Pictures: Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939–1945 (2017), and Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction (2016), winner of the 2018 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. His essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Representations, MLQ, Novel, Victorian Literature and Culture, Public Books, and other journals. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |