Voting Rights and Democracy
Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN
Recent Top Papers (60 days)
As of: 14 Oct 2024 – 13 Dec 2024
| Rank | Paper | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Second-Guessing State Courts in Election Cases: Arrogation and Evasion Under Moore v. Harper Michael Weingartner Independent Date Posted: 08 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2024 |
420 |
| 2. | Congress’s Power Over the Electoral Count Larry Schwartztol Harvard University – Harvard Law School Date Posted: 25 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2024 |
227 |
| 3. | Give Young Adults the Vote Nicholas Stephanopoulos Harvard Law School Date Posted: 16 Sep 2024 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2024 |
177 |
| 4. | The Internal Law of Democracy Kevin M. Stack Vanderbilt University – Law School Date Posted: 28 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2024 |
100 |
| 5. | Moore v. Harper, Evasion, and the Ordinary Bounds of Judicial Review David Gans, Brianne Gorod and Anna Jessurun Constitutional Accountability Center, Constitutional Accountability Center and Constitutional Accountability Center Date Posted: 09 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2024 |
92 |
| 6. | A Path to Multiparty Democracy Nate Ela Temple University Beasley School of Law Date Posted: 22 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2024 |
89 |
| 7. | A Major Wrong on a Private Right of Action Under the Voting Rights Act Macin Graber and Joshua A. Douglas Saint Louis University School of Law and University of Kentucky – College of Law Date Posted: 04 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2024 |
81 |
| 8. | Democratic Backsliding in Federal States James A. Gardner University at Buffalo Law School Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2024 |
69 |
| 9. | The National Popular Vote (NPV) Proposal for U.S. Presidential Elections Undermines Election Integrity Ronald L. Rivest and Philip B. Stark Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of California, Berkeley Date Posted: 26 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2024 |
61 |
| 10. | The Basis for Election Exceptionalism in Justiciability and Related Doctrines: Constitutional Compensation in Light of Purcell Vikram D. Amar and Evan Caminker University of California, Davis – School of Law and University of Michigan Law School Date Posted: 31 Jul 2024 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2024 |
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