Working papers
The Entry Margin: How Polarization Advances When Elections Stop Selecting Extremists
Studies candidate entry and electoral selection in U.S. gubernatorial primaries and general elections, with comparisons to House and Senate races.
Research brief
Question and contribution.
The draft links growing nominee extremity to changes in who runs, even as primary voters increasingly favor more moderate candidates.
Methods and themes
How the project is framed.
Candidate-level election dataWithin-contest comparisonsComposition decomposition
Political economyPolarizationElections
Cite
BibTeX.
@unpublished{apariciopolarization,
title = {The Entry Margin: How Polarization Advances When Elections Stop Selecting Extremists},
author = {Juan P. Aparicio and Thomas Favory},
note = {Working paper}
}