Reform and Retrenchment
Reform and Retrenchment
A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections
Boatright, Robert G.
Oxford University Press Inc
06/2024
336
Dura
9780197774083
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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
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