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Primary politics : everything you need to know about how America nominates its presidential candidates / Elaine C. Kamarck

Author
Kamarck, Elaine C.
Additional Titles
Everything you need to know about how America nominates its presidential candidates
Published
Washington, D. C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Edition
3rd edition.
Physical Description
xiv, 235 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Brookings Institution

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Contents
The good old days? : when parties controlled nominations and primaries were to be avoided at all costs -- Sequence as strategy : how Jimmy Carter "got it" and taught subsequent presidential candidates the new rules of the road -- The fight to be first : why Iowa and New Hampshire dominate presidential nominating politics -- Proportional representation : why Democrats use it and Republicans don't -- Devil in the details : how the delegate count shapes modern nominating campaigns -- Do conventions matter anymore? : why no one could stop Trump -- The loss of peer review
Summary
"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.
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ISBN
0815735278
9780815735274 (paperback)
Note
"Revised and updated with lessons from the 2016 presidential election"--Cover.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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