Fundamentally flawed
Subtitle: understanding and reforming presidential primaries
By: John Haskell.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Presidents -- United States -- Nomination.; Primaries -- United States.
Description: Fundamentally Flawed examines the fairness of the electoral procedures used in presidential nomination campaigns. John Haskell provides an overview of the historical developments that led to the presidential nomination process and analyzes the basic elements of public choice analysis as they apply to nomination campaigns. The book serves as a basic text and an introduction to the study of the nomination process as a method of public choice.

Haskell argues that the current arrangements in the presidential nomination process are deeply flawed and offers a set of reforms to the existing system, including the use of approval voting in the earliest primaries and diminishing the effect of frontloading primaries. Fundamentally Flawed will interest scholars and students of American government, political parties, the presidency, and campaigns and elections.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. (153)-159) and index.