The Front-Loading Problem in Presidential Nominations

ISBN-13: 9780815755197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 226 str.

William G. Mayer; Andrew E. Busch

Opis

Front-loading has emerged in several US election cycles and is the single most criticized feature of the American presidential selection process. Where state primaries and caucuses were once spread out over a period of three or four months, most are now crammed into a four- or five-week interval at the very beginning of the delegate selection calendar. The system that results has been called absurdly accelerated, dangerously irrational, warped and virtually mindless and a parody of participatory democracy.