Editor:
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía
Fecha de edición:
2013-09-06
ISSN:
2340-5031
Agradecimientos:
Financial assistance from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación under project ECO2011-29355 and Junta de Andalucía under
project SEJ5980 is gratefully acknowledged.
Serie/Num.:
UC3M Working papers. Economics 13-19
Proyecto:
Gobierno de España. ECO2011-29355
Palabras clave:
Voting system
,
Closed primaries
,
Open primaries
,
Top-two primary
,
Political moderation
,
Sequential voting
Derechos:
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
Resumen:
The top-two primary recently approved in states like Washington, California, and Alaska eliminates the closed
party primaries and creates instead a single ballot in which the first and second place winners pass to the general
election. We compare the electorThe top-two primary recently approved in states like Washington, California, and Alaska eliminates the closed
party primaries and creates instead a single ballot in which the first and second place winners pass to the general
election. We compare the electoral consequences of the top-two primary with those of the closed primaries. We
present a model where each primary procedure induce a sequential game with three stages: candidate-entry
stage, primary election, and general election. We analyze the equilibria of these games and show that the top-two
primary contributes to political moderation and may increase the number of swing states.[+][-]