Parties Without Brands? Evidence from California's 1878–79 Constitutional Convention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12178992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vladimir Kogan (0000-0002-9871-4065, The Ohio State University, corresponding author), Michael Binder (0000-0001-8479-1468, University of North Florida) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 68-87 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in American Political Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0898-588X • E-ISSN: 1469-8692 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0898588x17000025 |
| OpenAlex | W3122205685 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 55 |
Why do legislative parties emerge in democracies where elections are contested by individual candidates, rather than national party organizations? And can parties survive in the absence electoral pressure for their members to work on shared political goals? In this article, we examine the emergence and maintenance of party discipline in an atypical legislative context: California's 1878–79 constitutional convention. The unusual partisan alignments among the delegates at the California convention provide us with a unique empirical opportunity to test election- and policy-based explanations for legislative discipline. Our study combines a careful reading of the historical record with a statistical analysis of roll call votes cast at the convention to show how leaders of the “Nonpartisan” majority held together their disparate coalition of Democratic and Republican members in the face of conflicting preferences, ideological divisions, and well-organized political opponents. Our findings provide evidence that cohesive parties can exist even in the absence of broadly shared electoral pressures or policy goals
Context (archaeology · Convention · Craft · Democracy · Ideology · Legislature · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · History · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |