Reforming the Presidential nomination process

Reforming the Presidential nomination process / Steven S. Smith and Melanie J. Springer, editors.

"Looks at the presidential nomination process--the ways in which it is broken and how it might be fixed. Addresses the selection process: the importance--and perceived unfairness--of the earliest primaries, media coverage and public endorsements, 'superdelegates.' Evaluates public per...

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Other Authors: Smith, Steven S., 1953-, Springer, Melanie J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
USA > Präsident
USA > Präsident.
Presidents > United States > Nomination.
Nominations for office > United States.
Primaries > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Parties.
Nominations for office
Presidents > Nomination
Primaries
Kandidatenaufstellung
Vorwahl > Politik
Wahlrechtsreform
Vorwahl (Politik)
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Choosing presidential candidates / Steven S. Smith and Melanie J. Springer
  • Rules and the ideological character of primary electorates / Gerald C. Wright
  • Voter participation : records galore this time, but what about next time? / Thomas E. Patterson
  • Media, endorsements, and the 2008 primaries / Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Bruce W. Hardy
  • Superdelegates : reforming the reforms revisited / William G. Mayer
  • Public opinion and systems for nominating presidential candidates / Melanie J. Springer and James L. Gibson
  • Picking presidential nominees : time for a new regime / Larry J. Sabato
  • Is this any way to pick a president? : lessons from 2008 / Thomas E. Mann
  • Presidential nomination reform : legal restraints and procedural possibilities / Daniel H. Lowenstein.

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