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I’ve done a few other things on primary reform lately. I edited, with Richard Barton, a collection of recent work on primary election reform. You can acquire a print or open access copy of that book here<\/a>. And I was part of a task force on political reforms that could curb extremism; my chapter on primaries, along with the rest of that project, are available (open access) here<\/a>, and there’s a video of all of the task force members talking about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n My first book on primaries, Getting Primaried: The Changing Politics of <\/em><\/a>Congressional P<\/em>rimary<\/em> <\/a>Challenges<\/a>, <\/em>was published by the University of Michigan Press in the spring of 2013. In the book I argue against the conventional wisdom that primary challenges to incumbent members of Congress are on the rise. I show that Primary challenges are not becoming more frequent, nor are they more likely to succeed than in the past. The most successful of today\u2019s primary challengers have, however, been able to nationalize their races, drawing upon national fundraising base of ideologically motivated citizens and internet-based interest groups.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’m also the author of Congressional Primary Elections<\/a>, a historical account of congressional primaries and the literature on them, published in 2014, and designed for classroom use. And I’m the editor of the Handbook of Primary Elections, <\/a>published by Routledge in 2018. The book’s 27 chapters include discussions of primary election voting and outcomes, the history of primary elections, presidential primaries, the use of primaries in other countries, and evaluations of primary election reforms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here is a sampling of the media coverage of Getting Primaried:<\/em><\/p>\n A discussion of the book on the Niskanen Center podcast, January 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n Watch my presentation on this material at the Brookings Institution, November 2013<\/a><\/p>\n National Journal<\/em>‘s list of the best books of 2013<\/a><\/p>\n Op ed for Politico<\/em>, March 2014<\/a><\/p>\n An interview with me in the Washington Post<\/em>, June 2014<\/a> (discussing Eric Cantor’s primary defeat)<\/p>\n And another piece for the Washington Post<\/em>, August 2014<\/a>, on Republican Senate primaries<\/p>\n Op-ed for Talking Points Memo, July 2014<\/a><\/p>\n Symposium for the Scholars Strategy Network on the future of the Republican Party, July 2014<\/a><\/p>\n Interview with Vox.com, July 2014<\/a><\/p>\n Watch my presentation on this material on C-SPAN, October 2009 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have written four books on congressional primary elections and edited a couple of others. My most recent book, co-authored with Caroline Tolbert and Nate Micatka, is The Problem with Primary Voters. This book uses state voter files based on the … Continue reading <\/a>My other big effort to understand primaries, Reform and Retrenchment: A Century<\/em><\/a> of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections<\/em><\/a>, was published by Oxford University Press in 2024. It is a comprehensive history of efforts to change primary election laws from the 1920s to the 1970s, and an effort to connect the history of primary election reforms to contemporary efforts to open primaries or establish alternate voting systems in primaries. You can listen to podcasts where I discuss the book here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>. And here<\/a> is an article summarizing the book.<\/p>\n
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