Title Voting at the political fault line : California's experiment with the blanket primary / edited by Bruce E. Cain and Elisabeth R. Gerber

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 373 pages) : illustrations Contents California's blanket primary experiment / Bruce E. Cain and Elisabeth R. Gerber -- Crossover voting before the blanket: primaries versus parties in California history / Brian J. Gaines and Wendy K. Tam Cho -- Political reform via the initiative process: what voters think about when they change the rules / Shaun Bowler and Todd Donovan -- Context and setting: the mood of the California electorate / Mark Baldassare -- The causes and consequences of crossover voting in the 1998 California elections / John Sides, Jonathan Cohen, and Jack Citrin -- Should I stay or should I go? Sincere and strategic crossover voting in California assembly races / R. Michael Alvarez and Jonathan Nagler -- Peeking under the blanket: a direct look at crossover voting in the 1998 primary / Anthony M. Salvanto and Martin P. Wattenberg -- Crossing over when it counts: how the motives of voters in blanket primaries are revealed by their actions in general elections / Thad Kousser -- Candidates, donors, and voters in California's blanket primary elections / Wendy K. Tam Cho and Brian J. Gaines -- Strategic voting and candidate policy positions / Elisabeth R. Gerber -- Openness begets opportunity: minor parties and California's blanket primary / Christian Collet -- Thinner ranks: women as candidates and California's blanket primary / Miki Caul and Katherine Tate -- Targets of opportunity: California's blanket primary and the political representation of Latinos / Gary M. Segura and Nathan D. Woods -- Candidate strategy, voter response, and party cohesion / John R. Petrocik -- The blanket primary in the courts: the precedent and implications of California Democratic Party v. Jones / Nathaniel Persily -- Strategies and rules: lessons from the 2000 presidential primary / Bruce E. Cain and Megan Mullin Summary California's adoption of the blanket primary in 1996 presented a unique natural experiment on the impact that election rules have on politics. Billed as a measure that would increase voter participation and end ideological polarization, Proposition 198 placed California voters once again on the frontier of political reform Notes "Published in association with the Institute of Governmental Studies." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Primaries -- California POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Primaries California Form Electronic book Author Cain, Bruce E Gerber, Elisabeth R., 1964- University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. ISBN 9780520935778 0520935772 1417508256 9781417508259 9780520228337 0520228332 9780520228344 0520228340 1597349836 9781597349833 9786612762468 6612762462 128276246X 9781282762466

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