This book rejects conventional accounts of how American political
parties differ from those in other democracies. It focuses on the
introduction of the direct primary and argues that primaries
resulted from a process of party institutionalization initiated by
party elites. It overturns the widely accepted view that, between
1902 and 1915, direct primaries were imposed on the parties by
anti-party reformers intent on weakening them. An examination of
particular northern states shows that often the direct primary was
not controversial, and only occasionally did it involve
confrontation between party 'regulars' and their opponents. Rather,
the impetus for direct nominations came from attempts within the
parties to subject informal procedures to formal rules. However, it
proved impossible to reform the older caucus-convention system
effectively, and party elites then turned to the direct primary - a
device that already had become more common in rural counties in the
late nineteenth century.
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