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200 14$aThe American direct primary $eparty institutionalization and transformation in the North /$fAlan Ware$b[electronic resource]
210  1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2002.
215   $a1 online resource (xv, 270 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s)
300   $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
311   $a0-521-10972-8 
311   $a0-521-81492-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $gPart I. How the direct primary arose: --$tCatalytic effect of ballot reform --$tLegal control of party activity --$tSpread of direct nominations --$gPart II. Why the direct primary was introduced: --$tReformers versus urban machines --$tImpact of party competition --$tExplaining an 'irrational' reform --$tReaction and aftermath.
330   $aThis book rejects conventional accounts of how American political parties differ from those in other democracies. It focuses on the introduction of the direct primary and argues that primaries resulted from a process of party institutionalization initiated by party elites. It overturns the widely accepted view that, between 1902 and 1915, direct primaries were imposed on the parties by anti-party reformers intent on weakening them. An examination of particular northern states shows that often the direct primary was not controversial, and only occasionally did it involve confrontation between party 'regulars' and their opponents. Rather, the impetus for direct nominations came from attempts within the parties to subject informal procedures to formal rules. However, it proved impossible to reform the older caucus-convention system effectively, and party elites then turned to the direct primary - a device that already had become more common in rural counties in the late nineteenth century.
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