Category Archives: political parties
“Special delivery: Time to consign undemocratic boss-driven special elections to history”
NYDN.
“Conniving by crossover voters is more myth than threat”
“Obama: Eliminate The Senate Filibuster”
Special Issue on Top Two Primary from CJPP
Here:
Current Issue, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2015
Articles
Introduction: The California Top Two Primary
Sinclair, Betsy
The Top-Two, Take Two: Did Changing the Rules Change the Game in Statewide Contests?
Kousser, Thad
Why Voters May Have Failed to … Continue reading
“Top-two primary system hasn’t worked as proponents promised”
LAT:
Has it worked? In short, no, not yet.
New academic research, published Sunday by the California Journal of Politics & Policy, found that voters were just as apt to support candidates representing the same partisan poles as they… Continue reading
“Democrats Exercise ‘No’ Power in Senate to G.O.P.’s Dismay”
“Using Race (Again) in the Struggle for Political Mastery”
Michael Curtis:
After their victories in 2010 state legislative elections, Republicans reapportioned a number of state legislatures. They drew districts so that, for later elections, a minority or slim majority of Republican voters for Congress or the state legislature could… Continue reading
“How Parties Can Save Our State Legislatures”
California Appellate Court Rejects Minor Party Challenge to Top-Two Primary
You can read the opinion in Rubin v. Padilla here. (More from BAN.) UPDATE: More criticism from BAN here.
“California State Appeals Court Hearing Goes Badly for Minor Parties”
Ballot Access News:
On January 15, the California State Appeals Court based in San Francisco heard oral arguments in Rubin v Bowen, the case in which minor parties sued to overturn the top-two primary system on the grounds that… Continue reading
Bauer on Sunstein’s “Partyism”
“Romanticizing Democracy, Political Fragmentation, and the Decline of American Government”
Oooh—new Rick Pildes in the YLJ.
“CRomnibus Pays Off for Parties”
Ray LaRaja:
I certainly do not believe, like Fred Wertheimer, that this is the most corrupting legislation ever passed. Personally, I would have preferred raising the limits on parties to $100,000 or even $200,000 per year, with no proliferation of… Continue reading