California voters in 2010 approved, 54% to 46%, adoption of the top-two primary system. Supporters promised that the new system, which applied to statewide and congressional races, would transform ...

America’s two-party system isn’t an accident — it is a direct result of our electoral structure. The political scientist Lee Drutman tells the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein how shifting to proportional ...

A bipartisan effort to reform California’s “jungle primary” system, in which the top two vote-getters in the primary advance to the November general election regardless of party affiliation, is ...

AT JUST HOW WARM THE WEEKEND IS GOING TO GET COMING UP. NOW BACK OVER TO YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THERE’S AN EFFORT UNDERWAY TO DITCH CALIFORNIA’S OPEN PRIMARY ELECTION SYSTEM. AND IT’S BECAUSE OF ...

For decades, many Democratic and Republican centrists (along with good-government types) have blamed partisan primaries for a lot of our political system’s ills. In 2009, one Republican centrist from ...

(Inside California Politics) — Sixteen years after California voters approved the state’s “top two” primary, there’s a growing push to repeal the system. Under the current “jungle” primary model, all ...

A Democratic strategist filed a ballot initiative for the 2028 election cycle with the attorney general’s office on May 10, that, if successful, would repeal California's "top two" primary system. The ...

Abstract: Two-mass systems (TMSs) have been widely used to describe the typical dynamics of flexible servo systems. This article studies the output position control of TMSs based on fully actuated ...

Restoring both walking and sensation to patients with paraplegia is an ambitious goal—but a team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

An ageing population is often accompanied by an increase in age‑related disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, an incurable neurodegenerative disorder that impairs body movement and which is mainly ...