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Primary Politics
Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates
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2023
Summary
The 2024 presidential primaries are on the horizon and this fourth edition of Elaine Kamarck’s Primary Politics will be there to help make sense of them. Updated to include the 2020 election, it will once again be the guide to understanding the modern nominating system that gave the American electorate a choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden
In Primary Politics, political insider Elaine Kamarck explains how the presidential nomination process became the often baffling system we have today, including the “robot rule.” Her focus is the largely untold story of how presidential candidates since the early 1970s have sought to alter the rules in their favor and how their failures and successes have led to even more change. She describes how candidates have sought to manipulate the sequencing of primaries to their advantage and how Iowa and New Hampshire came to dominate the system. She analyzes the rules that are used to translate votes into delegates, paying special attention to the Democrats’ twenty-year fight over proportional representation and some of its arcana.
Drawing on meticulous research, interviews with key figures in both parties, and years of experience, this book explores one of the most important questions in American politics—how we narrow the list of presidential candidates every four years.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-4049-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-4051-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
262
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1. The Good Old Days?: When Parties Controlled Nominations and Primaries Were to Be Avoided at All Costs No access Pages 7 - 30
2. Sequence as Strategy: How Jimmy Carter “Got It” and Taught Subsequent Presidential Candidates the New Rules of the Road No access Pages 31 - 60
3. The Fight to Be First: Iowa, New Hampshire, and More No access Pages 61 - 98
4. Proportional Representation: Why Democrats Use It and Republicans Don’t No access Pages 99 - 138
5. Devil in the Details: How the Delegate Count Shapes Modern Nominating Campaigns No access Pages 139 - 180
6. Do Conventions Matter Anymore?: Why No One Could Stop Trump No access Pages 181 - 214
7. The Loss of Peer Review and What It Means for Democracy No access Pages 215 - 224
