Primary politics : everything you need to know about how America nominates its presidential candidates /

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"Drawing on meticulous research, interviews with key figures in both parties, and years of experience, this book explores one of the most important questions in American politics-how we narrow the list of presidential candidates every four years"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kamarck, Elaine Ciulla (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2023]
Edition:2024 presidentiol election edition.
Subjects:
Presidents > United States > Nomination.
Presidential candidates > United States.
Political parties > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
Political parties
Presidential candidates
Presidents > Nomination
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The good old days? : when parties controlled nominations and primaries were to be avoided at all costs
  • Sequence as strategy : how Jimmy Carter "got it" and taught subsequent presidential candidates the new rules of the road
  • The fight to the first : Iowa, New Hampshire and more
  • Proportional representation : why Democrats use it and Republicans don't
  • Devil in the details : how the delegate count shapes modern nominating campaigns
  • Do conventions matter anymore? : why no one could stop Trump
  • The loss of peer review and what it means for democracy.

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