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Subject(s)

• Primaries—United States [Browse]
• Elections—United States [Browse]
• Political candidates—United States [Browse]
• Political participation—United States [Browse]
• Primaries—Case studies [Browse]
• Elections—Case studies [Browse]
• Political candidates—Case studies [Browse]
• Political participation—Case studies [Browse]

Editor

• Boatright, Robert G [Browse]

Summary note

The Routledge Handbook of Primary Elections is an important research tool for scholars, a resource guide for students, and a source of ideas for those who seek to modify the electoral process.

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Contents

• What is, and what is not, a primary election? / Alan Ware
• The origins of the direct primary / John F. Reynolds
• Candidate emergence in the era of direct primaries / Jamie L. Carson and Ryan D. Williamson
• Should we expect primary elections to create polarization? : a robust median voter theorem with rational parties / Gilles Serra
• Sorting Dixie : the changing profile of southern presidential primary / electorates / Seth C. McKee
• The nature of crossover voters / Barbara Norrander
• The effect of open and closed primaries on voter turnout / Matthew J. Geras and Michael H. Crespin
• Strategic candidate entry : primary type and candidate divergence / Kristin Kanthak and Eric Loepp
• The direct primary and voting behavior in U.S. general elections / Shigeo Hirano and James M. Snyder, Jr
• Divisive primaries : when do they hurt in the general election? / Jeffrey Lazarus
• Is there a link between primary competition and general election results? / Robert G. Boatright and Vincent G. Moscardelli
• Ideological primaries and their influence in Congress / Caitlin E. Jewitt and Sarah A. Treul
• When might moderates win the primary? / Danielle M. Thomsen
• Primary elections and group dynamics : examining the makeup of the party coalitions / Casey B.K. Dominguez
• 2016 : one party decided / Marty Cohen
• Citizen choice in presidential primaries / Wayne Steger
• The fuzzy frontrunner : Donald Trump and the role of ideology in presidential nomination politics / Dante J. Scala
• Televised debates in presidential primaries / David A. Hopkins
• Primaries outside of the United States
• Mind the gap : the effects of intra- and inter-party competition on party unity in parliamentary democracies / Reuven Y. Hazan and Reut Itzkovitch-Malka
• Primaries and legislative behavior / Indriði H. Indriðason and Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson
• Party primaries as a strategic choice : the costs and benefits of democratic candidate selection / Kathleen Bruhn
• Primary elections in new democracies : the evolution of candidate selection methods in Ghana / Nahomi Ichino and Noah L. Nathan
• Party primaries in Canada / Scott Pruysers and Anthony Sayers
• The Italian style of intra-party democracy : a twenty-year long journey / Marino De Luca
• Beyond open and closed : complexity in American primary election reform / J. Andrew Sinclair and Ian O'Grady
• Sore loser laws in presidential and congressional elections / Michael S. Kang and Barry C. Burden.

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ISBN

• 1-134-84177-9
• 1-134-84170-1

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