{"id":42,"date":"2012-02-15T13:53:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T18:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/?p=42"},"modified":"2016-06-23T09:35:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T13:35:19","slug":"keyssar-on-voting-rights-for-2012-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/keyssar-on-voting-rights-for-2012-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyssar on Voting Rights for 2012 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joey mentioned he&#8217;d caught part of this radio program, and I thought I&#8217;d post it for everyone. The author of our textbook <i>The Right to Vote<\/i>, Harvard professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/about\/faculty-staff-directory\/alex-keyssar\">Alex Keyssar<\/a>, appeared on the WBUR NPR radio program &#8220;Radio Boston&#8221; on 2\/13\/12 to talk about voting rights. Specifically, he argues that we are currently in a period of contraction of the voting right, which could matter for the outcome of the 2012 election, and he also published an op-ed piece this week in the <i>New York Times<\/i> that explores these ideas, called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/12\/the-strange-career-of-voter-suppression\/?ref=opinion\">The Strange Career of Voter Suppression<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radioboston.wbur.org\/2012\/02\/13\/voter-restriction-history\">Listen to the Radio Boston interview here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey mentioned he&#8217;d caught part of this radio program, and I thought I&#8217;d post it for everyone. The author of our textbook The Right to Vote, Harvard professor Alex Keyssar, appeared on the WBUR NPR radio program &#8220;Radio Boston&#8221; on 2\/13\/12 to talk about voting rights. Specifically, he argues that we are currently in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-related-news","category-spr12","tag-spr12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}