Voting at the Political Fault Line |
CONTENTS |
TABLES |
FIGURES |
1. Introduction and Background |
1. California's Blanket Primary Experiment |
2. Crossover Voting before the Blanket |
3. Political Reform via the Initiative Process |
4. Context and Setting |
2. Crossover Voting |
5. The Causes and Consequences of Crossover Voting in the 1998 California Elections |
6. Should I Stay or Should I Go? |
7. Peeking Under the Blanket |
3. Effects of the Blanket Primary |
8. Crossing Over When It Counts |
9. Candidates, Donors, and Voters in California's Blanket Primary Elections |
10. Strategic Voting and Candidate Policy Positions |
11. Openness Begets Opportunity |
12. Thinner Ranks |
13. Targets of Opportunity |
14. Candidate Strategy, Voter Response, and Party Cohesion |
4. Conclusions and Implications |
15. The Blanket Primary in the Courts |
16. Strategies and Rules |
• | OPEN PRIMARIES AND THE McCAIN CANDIDACY |
• | THE FORTUITY OF THE SCHEDULE |
• | MICHIGAN: THE CASE OF THE HIJACKED ELECTION? |
• | CALIFORNIA IN 2000: A NEW EXPERIMENT |
• | CONCLUSION |
• | NOTES |
• | REFERENCES |
17. Conclusion |
CONTRIBUTORS |
INDEX |