Reform and retrenchment : a century of efforts to fix primary elections /
"This book explores changes in primary election laws from approximately 1928 through the 1970s. It evaluates four different arguments about how and why primary election laws changed: the decline of the Progressive movement; the rise of nonparty groups seeking a "hostile takeover" of t...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Reform and Retrenchment
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. The Middle Years: Primary Election Reforms, 1928-1970
- 2. Reform or Retrenchment?: An Overview of Changes in Primary Election Laws, 1928-1970
- 3. The Direct Primary and the Decline of the Progressive Movement
- 4. Hostile Takeover: Nonparty Group Capture of Primaries
- 5. Defective Primary Laws
- 6. Primaries and Partisan Advantage
- 7. Are Southern Primaries Different?
- Part II. What the History of Primary Elections Can Tell Us about Contemporary Reform Ideas
- 8. Contemporary Primary Reform Efforts
- 9. Why Primary Reforms Rarely Work
- 10. The Future of the Direct Primary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index