Download or read book Voting at the Political Fault Line written by Bruce E. Cain and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California's adoption of the blanket primary in 1996 presented a unique natural experiment on the impact that election rules have on politics. Billed as a measure that would increase voter participation and end ideological polarization, Proposition 198 placed California voters once again on the frontier of political reform.