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Replication data for: A Primary Cause of Partisanship?
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Replication data for: A Primary Cause of Partisanship?
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UDUJEI
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McGhee, Eric
Masket, Seth Shor, Boris Rogers, Steven McCarty, Nolan |
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Harvard Dataverse
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| Description |
Many theoretical and empirical accounts of representation argue that primary elections are a polarizing influence. Likewise, many reformers advocate opening party nominations to non-members as a way of increasing the number of moderate elected officials. Data and measurement constraints, however, have limited the range of empirical tests of this argument. We marry a unique new data set of state legislator ideal points to a detailed accounting of primary systems in the United States to gauge the effect of primary systems on polarization. We find that the openness of a primary election has little, if any, effect on the extremity of the politicians it produces.
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Social Sciences
States Legislative bodies Polarization Primaries Politics and government Partisanship |
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Eric McGhee
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