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Primary politics : everything you need to know about how America nominates its presidential candidates
- Title
- Primary politics : everything you need to know about how America nominates its presidential candidates / Elaine C. Kamarck.
- Author
- Kamarck, Elaine Ciulla
- Publication
- Washington, D. C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Brookings Institution, issuer of publication.
- Description
- xiv, 235 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Everything you need to know about how America nominates its presidential candidates
- Subjects
- Presidential candidates
- Presidents > United States > Nomination
- United States
- Presidential candidates > United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National
- Political parties > United States
- Presidents > Nomination
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties
- Note
- "Revised and updated with lessons from the 2016 presidential election"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index
- Contents
- Introduction -- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2519
- ISBN
- 0815735278
- 9780815735274
- OCLC
- 1022080860
- Author
- Kamarck, Elaine Ciulla, author.
- Title
- Primary politics : everything you need to know about how America nominates its presidential candidates / Elaine C. Kamarck.
- Publisher
- Washington, D. C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- 3rd edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index
- Added Author
- Brookings Institution, issuer of publication.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2519