The initiative to party: partisanship and ballot initiatives in California

In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 7, Heft 6, S. 739-757

Abstract

Examines their use by Democratic and Republican Party organizations to increase turnout for their candidates, split the opposing party's base of support, and promote their platform and ideology, and effect of party affiliation on voting behavior; based on county level voting patterns in the 1998 primary and general elections. Implications for direct democracy in California.