POLS 040. The Politics of Voting Rights (AP)

The right to vote and who has it have been politically constructed and contested since the early 19th century. The course considers why and how this politics has taken so many different forms over the course of American political development, with particular attention to the strange career of African-American voting rights and their party systemic and policy impact, female suffrage, the demobilization of the working class early in the 20th century and its remobilization during the New Deal, the late development of protections for Native American, Latino, and Asian-American voters, and current struggles over election administration and voter qualifications.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: Political Science
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/political-science

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