Primary politics
Subtitle: how presidential candidates have shaped the modern nominating system
By: Elaine C. Kamarck.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780815702917; 9780815702924
Subjects: Presidents -- United States -- Nomination; Presidential candidates -- United States
Description: "Explores one of the most important questions in American politics--how we narrow the list of presidential candidates every four years. Focuses on how presidential candidates have sought to alter the rules in their favor and how their failures and successes have led to even more change"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: The good old days? When parties controlled nominations and primaries were to be avoided at all costs; title: Sequence as strategy : how Jimmy Carter "got it" and taught subsequent presidential candidates the new rules of the road; title: The fight to be first : why Iowa and New Hampshire dominate presidential nominating politics; title: Proportional representation : why Democrats use it and Republicans don't; title: Devil in the details : how the delegate count shapes modern nominating campaigns; title: Do conventions matter any more? Superdelegates, the robot rule, and the modern nominating convention; title: The problem of "the decider"; title: Notes; title: Index.