2001
DOI: 10.2307/2700407
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The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

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“…The divergent economic fortunes of the northeastern United States and the Caribbean colonies provide a possible illustration. As Galenson (1996) and Keysser (2000) describe, the northeastern United States developed as a settler colony approximating a democratic society with significant political power in the hands of smallholders (though naturally those rights were non-existent for the slaves in the South). In contrast, the Caribbean colonies were clear examples of oligarchic societies, with political power in the monopoly of plantation owners and few rights for the slaves that made up the majority of the population (e.g., Beckford 1972;Dunn 1972).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The divergent economic fortunes of the northeastern United States and the Caribbean colonies provide a possible illustration. As Galenson (1996) and Keysser (2000) describe, the northeastern United States developed as a settler colony approximating a democratic society with significant political power in the hands of smallholders (though naturally those rights were non-existent for the slaves in the South). In contrast, the Caribbean colonies were clear examples of oligarchic societies, with political power in the monopoly of plantation owners and few rights for the slaves that made up the majority of the population (e.g., Beckford 1972;Dunn 1972).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Cultural evolutionists have largely sought to explain the question of normative change and the generally adaptive nature of costly-norms and institutions by means of cultural group selection (CGS) whereby equilibria (stabilized norms and institutions) proliferate proportional to their associated payoffs , 2009Henrich, 2004;Richerson et al, 2016). Generally, cultural group selection is conceptualized to act at the level of groups, such as when different norms and institutions lead groups to go extinct at variable rates or heterogeneously succeed in inter-group combat; in such cases, normative change occurs only in an aggregate distribution of equilibria and no intra-societal normative change need occur.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More so, in both the red-berry and forestry scenarios we described above, as well as in Locke and Panchanthanan and Boyd's formulation of normative conflict, individuals clearly vary in terms of what norms they wish to see characterize their groups. Normative conflict may erupt around normative goal-seeking and such conflict has been a source of both pro-social (Keyssar, 2009) and regressive or anti-social normative change (Bello, 2019), playing a key role in social evolution during the Holocene of the past ≈ 12, 000 years. For example, shifting backwards in time, it has characterized the Leveller and Digger movements in 17 th century England (Rees, 2017;Wood, 2017), the Guild movements of medieval Europe (Ogilvie, 2021), efforts by the Roman plebs seeking release from debt obligations to the patricians and more well-established legal rights (Forsythe, 2005), and even collective labor action by Egyptian scribes in 12 th century BCE (Edgerton, 1951).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Behrens et al, 2003;Keele et al, 2021;Kousser, 1974). In the United States such efforts generally target Black voters, and have taken many forms over the past two centuries -"literacy" tests, poll taxes, property qualifications, requirements for identity documents 1 , felon disenfranchisement, and voting station resourcing, amongst others (Berman, 2015;Keyssar, 2009;Pettigrew, 2017;Waldman, 2016;White, 2019White, , 2022. Yet these manipulations are not unique to the United States.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While voting rights have generally expanded over time globally (Acemoglu and Robinson, 2000;Przeworski, 2009), a growing body of research shows that the expansion of the franchise often follows non-linear trajectories with frequent setbacks (Bateman, 2018;Keyssar, 2009;Kuo, 2020). We study a significant but understudied case of targeted voter suppression: the Cape Colony (modern day South Africa) at the turn of the 20th century.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%