Congressional Primaries and the Politics of

Congressional Primaries and the Politics of Representation explores the ways in which congressional primary elections appear to be changing in the face of electoral and congressional politics. The prominent contributors examine how primary elections influence the types of candidates who run, the support they receive, the positions they take, the resources they spend, the media coverage they receive, and the type of party nominees that prevail.

Foreword

vii

Tom Rice

Acknowledgments

ix

Part One: The Study of Congressional Primaries

Introduction: Nomination Politics and Congressional Representation

3

(8)

Peter F. Galderisi

Marni Ezra

Michael Lyons

Congressional Primaries in Historical and Theoretical Context

11

(18)

Peter F. Galderisi

Marni Ezra

Part Two: Nomination Players, Politics, and Outcomes

Primary Elections as a Deterrence to Candidacy for the U.S. House of Represetatives

29

(19)

L. Sandy Maisel

Walter J. Stone

The Benefits and Burdens of Congressional Primary Elections

48

(14)

Marni Ezra

Campaign Finance in U.S. House Primary and General Elections

62

(15)

Jay Goodliffe

David B. Magleby

Elections and Amateurs: The Christian Right in the 1998 Congressional Compaigns

77

(18)

John C. Green

Part Three: The Politics of Representation---Primaries and Polarization

The Polarizing Effects of Congressional Primaries

95

(21)

Barry C. Burden

The Effects of Electoral Rules on Congressional Primaries

116

(16)

Kristin Kanthak

Rebecca Morton

Explaining the Ideological Differences between the Two U.S. Senators Elected from the Same State: An Institutional Effects Model

132

(11)

Bernard Grofman

Thomas L. Brunell

California's Experience with the Blanket Primary

143

(18)

Elisabeth R. Gerber

Postscript 2000

161

(5)

Bibliography

166

(15)

Index

181

(4)

About the Contributors

185

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