Towards a Democratic Franchise Suffrage Reform in the Twentieth-Century Bahamas

This book examines the process of electoral reform in the Bahamas during the 20th century in the broader context of decolonisation. Beginning with the General Assembly Elections Act of 1919, which reaffirmed a franchise limited to propertied men, milestones include the introduction of voting by secr...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Duve, Thomas (Editor), Aranha, Stephen B. (Editor), Marietta, Auer (Editor), Vogenauer, Stefan (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History 2022
Subjects:
Online Access:DOAB: download the publication
DOAB: description of the publication
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

MARC

LEADER 00000naaaa2200000uu 4500
001 doab_20_500_12854_99887
005 20230502
003 oapen
006 m o d
007 cr|mn|---annan
008 20230502s2022 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d
020 |a book.111233 
020 |a 9783944773391 
040 |a oapen  |c oapen 
024 7 |a 10.1353/book.111233  |c doi 
041 0 |a eng 
042 |a dc 
072 7 |a LAZ  |2 bicssc 
100 1 |a Duve, Thomas  |4 edt 
700 1 |a Aranha, Stephen B.  |4 edt 
700 1 |a Marietta, Auer  |4 edt 
700 1 |a Vogenauer, Stefan  |4 edt 
700 1 |a Duve, Thomas  |4 oth 
700 1 |a Aranha, Stephen B.  |4 oth 
700 1 |a Marietta, Auer  |4 oth 
700 1 |a Vogenauer, Stefan  |4 oth 
245 1 0 |a Towards a Democratic Franchise  |b Suffrage Reform in the Twentieth-Century Bahamas 
260 |b Max Planck Institute for European Legal History  |c 2022 
300 |a 1 electronic resource (336 p.) 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
506 0 |a Open Access  |2 star  |f Unrestricted online access 
520 |a This book examines the process of electoral reform in the Bahamas during the 20th century in the broader context of decolonisation. Beginning with the General Assembly Elections Act of 1919, which reaffirmed a franchise limited to propertied men, milestones include the introduction of voting by secret ballot between 1939 and 1946, universal adult male suffrage in 1959, women's suffrage in 1961, and the incremental abolition of plural voting between 1959 and 1969. 
540 |a Creative Commons  |f https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0  |2 cc  |4 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 
546 |a English 
650 7 |a Legal history  |2 bicssc 
653 |a Legal history 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://muse.jhu.edu/book/111233  |7 0  |z DOAB: download the publication 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/99887  |7 0  |z DOAB: description of the publication