MARC보기
LDR03072nam u200373 4500
001000000420276
00520190215164340
008190108s2018 |||||||||||||||||c||eng d
020 ▼a 9780438019805
035 ▼a (MiAaPQ)AAI10826516
035 ▼a (MiAaPQ)ucla:16843
040 ▼a MiAaPQ ▼c MiAaPQ ▼d 247004
0820 ▼a 320
1001 ▼a Patterson, Shawn Thomas, Jr.
24514 ▼a The Effect of Party Networks on Congressional Primaries.
260 ▼a [S.l.]: ▼b University of California, Los Angeles., ▼c 2018.
260 1 ▼a Ann Arbor: ▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, ▼c 2018.
300 ▼a 218 p.
500 ▼a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
500 ▼a Adviser: Kathleen Bawn.
5021 ▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2018.
520 ▼a The scholarship on political parties has largely focused on their declining influence. Specifically, many claim that through the widespread adoption of the partisan primary, control over the nomination of candidates has been largely relegated to the ambitions and talents of the office-seekers themselves. I challenge this perspective, arguing that networks of partisan interests still play a major role in determining a party's nominee. To support this claim, I combine field interviews, journalistic accounts, election results, and campaign finance disclosures to demonstrate the systematic effect of political networks on the electoral prospects of primary candidates. I provide a series of case studies to show the impact of party networks and to demonstrate the underlying mechanism---the diverse campaign resources that these networks are able to marshal on behalf of their candidates. To generalize these findings, I use campaign finance data for candidates between 1980 and 2014 to construct a novel measure of group support---existing network density---derived from the degree of coordination present among a candidate's campaign contributors. I find that greater network support provides a significant benefit to candidates seeking consequential open-seat nominations for the House of Representatives. These effects remain over time and across parties after controlling for measures of candidate viability, such as fundraising and previous elected experience. This suggests that while the party organizations may have fewer formal powers over the selection of candidates for office, the constellation of organized interests constituting these political parties have lost little of their clout in the electoral process.
590 ▼a School code: 0031.
650 4 ▼a Political science.
690 ▼a 0615
71020 ▼a University of California, Los Angeles. ▼b Political Science 0699.
7730 ▼t Dissertation Abstracts International ▼g 79-10A(E).
773 ▼t Dissertation Abstract International
790 ▼a 0031
791 ▼a Ph.D.
792 ▼a 2018
793 ▼a English
85640 ▼u http://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T15013677 ▼n KERIS ▼z 이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
980 ▼a 201812 ▼f 2019
990 ▼a ***1012033