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Title

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

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Cain, Bruce E.
• Gerber, Elisabeth R., 1964-
• University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies.

Description

xi, 373 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004.

Subject

Primaries > California

Note

• "Published in association with the U.C. Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: LIST OF TABLES / vii -- LIST OF FIGURES / xi PART ONE * INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND --1.California's Blanket Primary Experiment -- Bruce E.Cain and Elisabeth R Gerber / 3 --2.Crossover Voting before the Blanket: Primaries versus Parties in California History -- Brian J. Gaines and Wendy K.Tam Cho / I2 --3.Political Reform via the Initiative Process: What Voters Think about When They Change the Rules -- Shaun Bowler and Todd Donovan / 36 --4.Context and Setting: The Mood of the California Electorate -- Mark Baldassare / 59 PART TWO * CROSSOVER VOTING --5.The Causes and Consequences of Crossover Voting in the 1998 California Elections -- John Sides, Jonathan Cohen, and Jack Citrin / 77 --6.Should I Stay or Should I Go? Sincere and Strategic Crossover Voting in California Assembly Races -- R.Michael Alvarez and Jonathan Nagler / o07 -- 7.Peeking Under the Blanket: A Direct Look at Crossover Voting -- in the 1998 Primary --^
• Anthony M.Salvanto and Martin P.Wattenberg / 124 PART THREE * EFFECTS OF THE BLANKET PRIMARY --8.Crossing Over When It Counts: How the Motives of Voters in Blanket Primaries -- Are Revealed by Their Actions in General Elections -- Thad Kousser / 143 --9.Candidates, Donors, and Voters in California's Blanket Primary Elections -- Wendy K.Tam Cho and Brian J. Gaines / i7i --10.Strategic Voting and Candidate Policy Positions -- Elisabeth R.Gerber / 192 --11.Openness Begets Opportunity: Minor Parties and -- California's Blanket Primary -- Christian Collet / 214 --12.Thinner Ranks: Women as Candidates and California's Blanket Primary -- Miki Caul and Katherine Tate / 234 --13.Targets of Opportunity: California's Blanket Primary and the Political Representation of Latinos -- Gary M.Segura and Nathan D.Woods / 248 --14.Candidate Strategy, Voter Response, and Party Cohesion --^
• John R.Petrocik / 270 --PART FOUR * CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS --15.The Blanket Primary in the Courts: The Precedent and Implications of California Democratic Party v.Jones -- Nathaniel Persily / 303 --16.Strategies and Rules: Lessons from the 2000 Presidential Primary -- Bruce E.Cain and Megan Mullin / 324 --17.Conclusion -- Bruce E.Cain and Elisabeth R.Gerber / 344 --LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS / 355 -- INDEX / 36I.

ISBN

• 0520228332 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520228340 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001027817

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Harvard Library