TY - BOOK AU - Schaffer, Frederic Charles TI - The hidden costs of clean election reform SN - 9789715505918 AV - JF 1083 PY - 0000///Ateneo de Manila University Press PB - Quezon City KW - Elections -- Corrupt practices -- United States KW - Elections -- Corrupt practices KW - Voting -- United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Drawing on evidence from the Philippines as well as countries such as the United States, Venezuela, South Africa, and Taiwan, The Hidden Costs of Clean Election Reform investigates why citizens sometimes find themselves alienated or abruptly disenfranchised. . . . By understanding how even good-faith efforts to improve corrupt or flawed electoral practices may impede the democratic process, the book suggests new ways to help prevent future breaches of democracy. [www.ateneopress.org] ER -