Washington Political Scientist Todd Donovan Article, “The Top Two Primary: What Can California Learn from Washington?”

Political science professor Todd Donovan recently published an article in The California Journal of Politics & Policy, titled, “The Top Two Primary: What Can California Learn from Washington?” The article is in Volume 4, Issue 1, 2012. The last sentence of the Abstract is, “Whatever the cause of the changes, the partisan structure of Washington’s legislature appears unaltered by the new primary system.”

The article concludes that when Washington state started using a top two system in 2008, the change did not create a legislature that “looked different or functioned differently from the legislature elected under a partisan primary.”


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  1. How many polisci profs are brain dead ignorant about gerrymanders and P.R. ??? Yikes.

    Heaven help the U.S.A. with its armies of MORONS in schools, colleges, courts, media, etc.

  2. It is naive to expect instantaneous changes. Washington does not have term limits, and has fairly populous legislative districts (it does not have separate districts for representatives).

    One of the Democratic senators who crossed over to support the Republican budget had been elected as a Republican representative, and switched parties to challenge the incumbent senator for his district. Under Top 2, there would have been no need for him to switch parties.

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