Routledge Handbook of Primary Elections

Herausgeber: Boatright, Robert G

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Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of Primary Elections is an important research tool for scholars, a resource guide for students, and a source of ideas for those who seek to modify the electoral process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 490
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780367580841
• ISBN-10: 0367580845
• Artikelnr.: 69892833

Autorenporträt

Robert G. Boatright is a Professor of Political Science at Clark University and the Director of Research at the National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD) at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on the effects of campaign and election laws on the behavior of politicians and interest groups, with a particular focus on primary elections and campaign finance laws and practices.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction [Robert G. Boatright] Part 1: The Origins of Primary Elections
1. What is, and what is not, a Primary Election? [Alan Ware] 2. The Origins
of the Direct Primary [John F. Reynolds] 3. Candidate Emergence in the Era
of Direct Primaries [Jamie L. Carson and Ryan D. Williamson] 4. Should we
Expect Primary Elections to Create Polarization? A Robust Median Voter
Theorem with Rational Parties [Gilles Serra] Part 2: Primary Voters and
Primary Voting Laws 5. Sorting Dixie: The Changing Profile of Southern
Presidential Primary Electorates [Seth C. McKee] 6. The Nature of Crossover
Voters [Barbara Norrander] 7. The Effect of Open and Closed Primaries on
Voter Turnout [Matthew J. Geras and Michael H. Crespin] 8. Strategic
Candidate Entry: Primary Type and Candidate Divergence [Kristin Kanthak and
Eric Loepp] Part 3: Candidates and Parties in Primary Elections 9. The
Direct Primary and Voting Behavior in U.S. General Elections [Shigeo Hirano
and James M. Snyder, Jr.] 10. Divisive Primaries: When do They Hurt in the
General Election? [Jeffrey Lazarus] 11. Is there a Link Between Primary
Competition and General Election Results? [Robert G. Boatright and Vincent
G. Moscardelli] 12. Ideological Primaries and their Influence in Congress
[Caitlin E. Jewitt and Sarah A. Treul] 13. When Might Moderates Win the
Primary? [Danielle M. Thomsen] 14. Primary Elections and Group Dynamics:
Examining the Makeup of the Party Coalitions [Casey B. K. Dominguez] Part
4: U. S. Presidential Primaries 15. 2016: One Party Decided [Marty Cohen]
16. Citizen Choice in Presidential Primaries [Wayne Steger] 17. The Fuzzy
Frontrunner: Donald Trump and the Role of Ideology in Presidential
Nomination Politics [Dante J. Scala] 18. Televised Debates in Presidential
Primaries [David A. Hopkins] Part 5: Primaries Outside of the United States
19. Mind the Gap: The Effects of Intra- and Inter-Party Competition on
Party Unity in Parliamentary Democracies [Reuven Y. Hazan and Reut
Itzkovitch-Malka] 20. Primaries and Legislative Behavior [Indriði H.
Indriðason and Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson] 21. Party Primaries as a Strategic
Choice: The Costs and Benefits of Democratic Candidate Selection [Kathleen
Bruhn] 22. Primary Elections in New Democracies: The Evolution of Candidate
Selection Methods in Ghana [Nahomi Ichino and Noah L. Nathan] 23. Party
Primaries in Canada [Scott Pruysers and Anthony Sayers] 24. The Italian
Style of Intra-Party Democracy: A Twenty-Year Long Journey [Marino De Luca]
Part 6: Primary Election Reform 25. Beyond Open and Closed: Complexity in
American Primary Election Reform [J. Andrew Sinclair and Ian O'Grady] 26.
Sore Loser Laws in Presidential and Congressional Elections [Michael S.
Kang and Barry C. Burden]