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Party transformation in congressional primaries : faction and ideology in the twenty-first century / Mike Cowburn.

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This book explores how new dynamics of primary competition have contributed to party transformation in Congress. It challenges commonly held beliefs about the role of primary voters and sheds light on the institutions, processes, and actors responsible for increasing partisan conflict on Capitol Hil...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Cowburn, Mike (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Subjects:
United States. > Congress > Elections.
Primaries > United States.
Political parties > United States.
Polarization (Social sciences) > United States.
Tea Party movement > United States.
United States > Politics and bovernment > 1989-
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title page
  • Review
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • Ideological and Factional Competition in Primaries
  • Why Study Partisan Polarization in Congress?
  • Mechanisms of Party Change in Primaries
  • Data
  • Sources
  • Why Focus on Recent Primaries?
  • Partisan Asymmetries
  • Outline of the Book
  • Part I Primary Transformation
  • 2 Ideological and Factional Primaries: The New Dynamics of Congressional Nominations
  • Primary Competition in the Polarized Era
  • Transformation of Congressional Primaries
  • Evidence of Primary Transformation
  • Frequency
  • Support (Factional Primaries)
  • Reason for Contest (Ideological Primaries)
  • Ideological Challenges to Incumbents
  • Campaign Spending
  • Turnout
  • Competitiveness (Fractionalization)
  • Primaries Fundamentally Changed in the Twenty-First Century
  • 3 Mechanisms: Why Have Primaries Changed?
  • Structural Changes
  • Electoral Incentives
  • Increased Partisan Identification
  • Negative Partisanship
  • Close National Elections
  • District-Level Changes
  • Partisan Asymmetry
  • Regulatory Reforms
  • A New Era of Campaign Regulation
  • PAC Funding and Realigner Faction Candidates
  • Technological Developments
  • Internet Fundraising
  • Evolution of Media Ecology
  • Responses by Key Actors
  • Party Networks
  • Organizational Structure
  • Electoral Strategy
  • Candidates
  • Decision to Run
  • Campaign Framing
  • Voters
  • Participation
  • Motivation
  • Nationalization
  • Structural Factors Changed Primary Elections
  • Part II Party Transformation
  • 4 A Most Likely Case: Factional Primaries in the Tea Party Era
  • Expectations when Factions Engage in Primaries
  • Identifying whether Factional Primaries Polarize
  • Data
  • Empirical Design
  • Rightward Movement in Districts with Factional Primaries
  • Factional Primaries Can Change Parties
  • 5 Selective Effect: Do Noncentrist Candidates Perform Better in Primaries?
  • Does "Extremism" Align with Success?
  • Where Do "Extreme" Candidates Succeed?
  • Incumbent Position and Primary Threat
  • Challenger Emergence
  • Primary Competitiveness
  • Incumbent Defeat
  • Are Primary Winners More "Extreme" than Other Nominees?
  • Are Ideological and Factional Primary Winners More "Extreme"?
  • Turnout and Nominee Position
  • Primary Voters Aren't Driving Polarization
  • 6 Between-Election Adaptative Effect: How Do Incumbents Respond?
  • Expectations When Incumbents Are Challenged
  • Estimating Incumbent Responses
  • Do Incumbents Move after a Primary?
  • Hypothesis One: All Primaries
  • Hypothesis Two: Factional Primaries
  • Hypothesis Three: Ideological Primaries
  • Incumbents Respond to Factional Challenges
  • 7 Within-Election Adaptative Effect: Do Primaries Induce Artificial Positioning?
  • Communication and Positional Change
  • Measuring Positions during a Campaign

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