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Parties Without Brands? Evidence from California's 1878–79 Constitutional Convention
2017
Studies in American political development
Why do legislative parties emerge in democracies where elections are contested by individual candidates, rather than national party organizations? And can parties survive in the absence electoral pressure for their members to work on shared political goals? In this article, we examine the emergence and maintenance of party discipline in an atypical legislative context: California's 1878–79 constitutional convention. The unusual partisan alignments among the delegates at the California
doi:10.1017/s0898588x17000025
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