Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and
voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected …

Primary elections for choosing party leaders and candidates are now becoming
commonplace in Europe, Asia and America but questions as to how much they hinder a …

Using data from a longitudinal telephone study of voting-eligible black Americans I explore
the political context of black voter turnout in the 1984 and 1988 presidential elections and …

Reporting data and predicting trends through the 2008 campaign, this classroom-tested
volume offers again James E. Campbell's “theory of the predictable campaign,” …

Political parties throughout Latin America rely increasingly on primary elections to select
candidates for public office. Where they are adopted, primaries are generally touted as …

America's dominant two-party system forces the political parties to be inclusive and erect big
tents. Since their origins, the Democratic and Republican parties have been ideologically …

Theory: The divisive primary hypothesis asserts that the more divisive the presidential
primary contest compared to that of the other party the fewer votes received in the general …

We consider the effect of legislative primaries on the electoral performance of political
parties in a new democracy. While existing literature suggests that primaries may either hurt …

Do Democrats have greater difficulty maintaining party unity than Republicans? William
Mayer argues that they do, chiefly because the Democrats are a more ideologically diverse …

Misreport is a serious problem because inaccurate data may lead to erroneous substantive
conclusions. This study examines the systematic misreport for the eventual presidential …