Rebecca Morton wrote:

> On the normative arguments about the system -- there is I believe a huge
> literature on the effects of nonpartisan elections with and without majority
> requirements both empirical and theoretical.  This is not a primary, but
> simply the replacing of partisan elections with nonpartisan elections with
> majority requirements.  I have an experimental paper on majority
> requirements and minority representation that was recently published in the
> New York University Law Review where we show that empirically such a system
> advantages moderates.  Steve Callendar has a recent theoretical paper in
> Political Analysis on these systems.  Probably a good place to start reading
> on this rather large literature.

Thinking of it in nonpartisan election terms, Wright and Schaffner 
didn't have much nice to say about nonpartisan elections in NE; I don't 
know offhand if NE has a majority requirement.  The OR plan sounds 
different in that candidates will/can carry party labels into the first 
round, which would be a significant departure from NE.

Seth Masket at Denver also has a piece or two about CA's old open 
primary, which operated differently from the OR plan.

Jim Battista

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