On May 1, 2013, five political scientists released a research paper, “A Primary Cause of Partisanship? Nominating systems and legislators.” The 26-page paper can be read here. After clicking on the link, click on the “Download this Paper” button. The paper describes the authors’ opinions about their findings. In other words, they speculate on why the theory that open primaries elect more moderate legislators turns out not to be true. The authors are Nolan McCarty, Eric McGhee, Seth Masket, Steven Rogers, and Boris Shor.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Gerrymanders control mostly ALL in the nearly dead USA and State regimes.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
NO evil useless now SUPER dangerous primaries — producing mainly Stalin and Hitler clones.