Research Catalog

Title

Eternal bandwagon : the politics of presidential selection / Byron E. Shafer, Elizabeth M. Sawyer.

Author

Shafer, Byron E.

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

Sawyer, Elizabeth M. (Writer on political science)

Description

xviii, 273 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

Orthodox reporting and conventional scholarship focuses on the factors that distinguish each presidential contest and then attempts to explain them. This book rather, demonstrates that the politics of presidential nomination has been remarkably stable in the United States since the 1830s and right through to 2020. A common bandwagon dynamic, rolling once through party organizations and now through presidential primaries, permits a simple measure that has predicted nominations well before the decisive threshold was reached, while allowing precise comparisons across the years. So it becomes possible to separate the handful of things that matter for winnowing a large and diverse society into two individual presidential nominees. This funnel of causality moves through the occupational and careers seedbeds of a field of presidential aspirants, squeezing these fields by way of a small set of structural shapers, until party factions and factional struggles--not rules of the game, not candidate characteristics, not nominating strategies, nor all the other ephemera so beloved of commentators and observers--actually choose a given nominee.

Series Statement

The evolving American presidency

Uniform Title

Evolving American presidency.

Subject

• Presidents > United States > Nomination > History
• Political parties > United States
• Political parties
• Presidents > Nomination
• United States

Genre/Form

• History.
• Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface : Brave new world or latest twists on a familiar narrative? -- The bandwagon dynamic and the causal funnel : institutional dynamics and nominating politics -- Deep channels to a presidency : occupations and careers -- Factions, constituencies, and candidates : the democrats -- Factions, constituencies, and candidates : the republicans -- The usual suspects : rules for the nominating contest -- The usual suspects: strategies and sequences -- Eternal bandwagon : nominating politics and the general election.

Call Number

JFD 22-207

ISBN

• 3030517985
• 9783030517984
• 9783030518011
• 3030518019

OCLC

1156616894

Author

Shafer, Byron E., author.

Title

Eternal bandwagon : the politics of presidential selection / Byron E. Shafer, Elizabeth M. Sawyer.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The evolving American presidency

Evolving American presidency.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON.

Added Author

Sawyer, Elizabeth M. (Writer on political science), author.

Research Call Number

JFD 22-207