TY - BOOK ID - 85826378 TI - The direct primary in the United States : party institutionalization and transformation in the American north PY - 2002 SN - 0511030371 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Primaries KW - Politics and Government. KW - Direct primaries KW - Elections, Primary KW - Presidential primaries KW - Primary elections KW - Elections KW - Nominations for office UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85826378 AB - Rejecting conventional accounts of how American political parties differ from those in other democracies, this text focuses on the introduction of the direct primary and argues that primaries resulted from a process of party institutionalization initiated by party elites. ER -