TY - BOOK ID - 8508352 TI - Voting at the political fault line : California's experiment with the blanket primary AU - Cain, Bruce E. AU - Gerber, Elisabeth R. AU - University of California, Berkeley. PY - 2002 SN - 9786612762468 128276246X 0520935772 1597349836 0520228340 0520228332 9780520935778 1417508256 9781417508259 9780520228337 9780520228344 9781597349833 6612762462 9781282762466 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - California. KW - Primaries. KW - Primaries-- California. KW - Political Rights - U.S. KW - Government - U.S. KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Primaries KW - Direct primaries KW - Elections, Primary KW - Presidential primaries KW - Primary elections KW - Elections KW - Nominations for office KW - american history. KW - american politics. KW - california history. KW - california. KW - elections. KW - electoral college. KW - government. KW - political party. KW - political primaries. KW - political science. KW - political. KW - politics. KW - presidential primary. KW - primary elections. KW - united states history. KW - us history. KW - voter. KW - voting. KW - west coast. KW - western states. KW - western united states. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8508352 AB - California's adoption of the blanket primary in 1996 presented a unique natural experiment on the impact that election rules have on politics. Billed as a measure that would increase voter participation and end ideological polarization, Proposition 198 placed California voters once again on the frontier of political reform. Employing a variety of data sources and methodologies, the contributors to Voting at the Political Fault Line apply their wide-ranging expertise to understand how this change in political institutions affected electoral behavior and outcomes. This authoritative study analyzes the consequences of California's experiment with the blanket primary, including the incidence of, motivations behind, and persistence of crossover voting; the behavior of candidates and donors; the effects on candidate positions and party platforms; and the consequences for women, minorities, and minor-party candidates. Published in association with the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley ER -