Voting at the Political Fault Line |
CONTENTS |
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![]() | 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 |
• | CROSSOVER VOTING: WHAT WE EXPECT |
• | DATA SOURCES |
• | OVERALL PATTERNS OF CROSSOVER VOTING |
• | CROSSOVER VOTING AND STATEWIDE RACES |
![]() | ELECTORAL SCENARIOS: CROSSOVER IN DISTRICT ELECTIONS |
• | THE CONSEQUENCES OF CROSSOVER VOTING |
• | CROSSOVER INTO MINOR-PARTY CONTESTS |
• | CONCLUSION |
• | APPENDIX: DATA AND SAMPLES |
• | REFERENCES |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 17. Conclusion |
CONTRIBUTORS |
INDEX |