Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates

ISBN-13: 9780815735274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 200 str.

Opis

The 2022 presidential primaries are on the horizon and this third edition of Elaine Kamarck's Primary Politics will be there to help make sense of them. Updated to include the 2016 election, it will once again be the guide to understanding the modern nominating system that gave the American electorate a choice between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton.

Spis treści

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. The Good Old Days? When Parties Controlled Nominations and Primaries Were to Be Avoided at All Costs
• 2. Sequence as Strategy: How Jimmy Carter "Got It" and Taught Subsequent Presidential Candidates the New Rules of the Road
• 3. The Fight to Be First: Why Iowa and New Hampshire Dominate Presidential Nominating Politics
• 4. Proportional Representation: Why Democrats Use It and Republicans Don't
• 5. Devil in the Details: How the Delegate Count Shapes Modern Nominating Campaigns
• 6. Do Conventions Matter Anymore? Why No One Could Stop Trump
• 7. The Loss of Peer Review
• Notes
• Index