Alec Ewald, The Way We Vote: The Local Dimension of American Suffrage (Vanderbilt 2009). In my blurb of this book, available through the link above, I say:”Ewald’s book fills an important void in the literature on election administration, focusing on what he terms the ‘hyper-federalized’ American system. Drawing from history, law, political science, and other disciplines, he paints a nuanced picture of the pluses and minuses of decentralization, from the beginning of the Republic through modern times. A must read for students of American elections and election law.”