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082	0	4	_a324.2730154 _bWAR
100			_aWare , Alan
245	1	0	_aThe American Direct Primary: Party Institutionalization and Transformation in the North _c/ Alan Ware
260			_bCambridge Univ Pr _c2002
300			_a258p,; _c22 cm.
504			_aindex
520			_aThis is the first major study of the origins of direct primary elections in the U.S. since the 1920s. It rejects the widely held view that primaries resulted from a conflict between anti-party reformers and so-called party "regulars." Instead, it shows that the direct primary was the result of an attempt, starting in the late 1880s, by mainstream party politicians to subject their previously informal procedures to formal rules. Politicians turned to the direct primary because it proved impossible to make effective changes to the caucus-convention system of nominating candidates.
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