The Electoral Challenge of Balancing Primary and General Electorates

• In Event: Candidate Electability

Brief Overview

We estimate the effect of alignment in both the primary election and the general election and test whether the effect is larger in the primary election - the primary premium.

Authors

• Sarah E. Anderson, University of California-Santa Barbara

• Dan Butler, Washington University in St Louis

• Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Northwestern University