The Ballot as a Party-System Switch
The Role of the Australian Ballot in Party-System Change and Development in the USA
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6314871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee Demetrius Walker (0000-0003-0768-310X, University of Kentucky, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-241 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Party Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1354068805049777 |
| OpenAlex | W2147107922 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 24 |
Diverging from the generally accepted argument that Australian ballot adoption in the USA was the work of anti-party forces, this article revitalizes Key's taxonomy of the political party and advances the argument that the merger of party organization and party-in-government interests in part led to adoption of the ballot and facilitated the 1896 party-system change. The pattern of Australian ballot adoption – particularly the rapid adoption of the ballot in Western states – indicates that the state party organization and the party-in-government were united in their frustration prompted by their mutual inability to curb opposition party success and unpredictability of party-in-the-electorate activity at the congressional level. Using the Australian ballot as an outcome variable in a prior-to-adoption model and as an explanatory variable in a subsequent-to-adoption model, findings indicate that state party organizations accepted the ballot partly to obtain control over congressional election outcomes
Argument (complex analysis · Ballot · Economics · General election · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Primary election · Public relations · Secret ballot · State (computer science · Voting · Australian History and Society · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Public Administration
The Impact of Electoral Rules and Reforms on Election Outcomes
The Impact of the Australian Ballot on Member Behavior in the U.S. House of Representatives
Ballot Reform and the Decline of Third Parties in State Legislatures
The Effect of the Secret Ballot on Party System Fragmentation
The adoption of direct primaries in the United States
The Australian ballot
Critical elections and the mainsprings of American politics.
Parties and party systems
Curing the Mischiefs of Faction
Why Parties?
Politics, parties, & pressure groups.
Party System Change
A Dynamic Model of Loss, Retirement, and Tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives
Congress, The Electoral Connection
Congress
Idaho
Kansas
Party Response to Environmental Change
The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives
Toward Understanding 19th Century Congressional Careers
Anti-Partism and Party Control of Political Reform in the United States
What To Do (and Not to Do) with Time-Series Cross-Section Data
The Electoral Connection Meets the Past
Idaho
The Effect of the Australian Ballot Reform on Split Ticket Voting
Careerism, Committee Assignments, and the Electoral Connection
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2020 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |