Peer Review

• Barton, Richard and Carlo Macomber. 2025. How Distinct are Primary Voters? Insights from the 2024 Primary Election Study. Reforming Primary Elections. De Gruyter. Berlin, Germany. (Forthcoming) 

• Barton, Richard and David A. Bateman. 2023. “Gilded Age Doughfaces: Northern Democrats and Black Civil Rights”, Journal of Historical Political Economy: Vol. 3: No. 3, pp 363-390.  

• Barton, Richard. 2022. “Upending the New Deal Regulatory Regime: Democratic Party Position Change on Financial Regulation.” Perspective on Politics.

• Barton, Richard. 2022. “A Primary Threat: How Ideological Primary Challengers Exacerbate Polarization.” Party Politics.

• Barton, Richard and Spencer Piston. 2021. “Undeserving Rich or Untrustworthy Government? How Elite Rhetoric Erodes Support for Soaking the Rich.” Politics, Groups and Identities.

Reports 

• https://www.uniteamerica.org/articles/nonpartisan-primaries-special-interests-how-reform-mitigates-the-influence-of-ideological-spending-in-elections
• https://www.uniteamericainstitute.org/research/californias-top-two-primary-the-effects-on-electoral-politics-and-governance
• https://www.uniteamericainstitute.org/research/louisianas-long-term-election-experiment-how-eliminating-partisan-primaries-improved-governance-and-reduced-polarization