Download or read book Presidential Primaries and Caucuses written by Danielle Haynes and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primaries and caucuses are some of the first steps to becoming the president of the United States. Candidates who've announced their intention to run for this important office first have to convince members of their political party that they deserve a nomination. Primaries and caucuses help political parties choose their official party candidate. Readers will learn about the history of and key parts and processes associated with American primaries and caucuses. Primary sources and informative fact boxes give historical context to these important events in the journey to becoming the president of the United States.
Download or read book Primary Politics written by Elaine C. Kamarck and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book U S Presidential Primaries and the Caucus Convention System written by James W. Davis and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1997-04-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past quarter century, presidential nominating contests have become as exciting as the presidential election. The mass media devote more time, space, and staff to cover the presidential primaries and Iowa caucuses than the general election itself. Each week from late February to early June, the TV networks headline these contests, expecially in the challenging party. The stakes are high, for the winner of these contests will invariably be the party nominee. This sourcebook provides the reader with a comprehensive and convenient resource for following and understanding the presidential primary and the three or four-tier caucus-convention system used throughout the 50 states to send delegates to the quadrennial national nominating conventions. Historical perspectives as well as precedents are documented. Statistical tables and a glossary of terms provide helpful tools for augmenting the reader's understanding.
Download or read book The Front Loading Problem in Presidential Nominations written by William G. Mayer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-11-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The race for the White House may seem like a marathon, but the nomination process is becoming a sprint, with the starting gun fired earlier each time. Where state primaries and caucuses were once spread out over a period of three or four months, most are now crammed into a four– or five–week interval at the very beginning of the delegate selection calendar. The compression and hastening of the nomination season are changing the nature of the presidential selection process, the most visible pillar of American democracy. Despite the importance of this issue in American politics, however, too little systematic analysis has been done on the topic. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the front-loading problem in all its facets. William Mayer and Andrew Busch define the parameters of the front-loading question as well as its impact. They trace the history that shaped the current system and explain why it is such a critical element of presidential elections. Most important, the authors present a detailed analysis of all the major proposals for coping with front-loading and of the political and constitutional obstacles for reform. While they conclude that there is no easy solution to this complex issue, they identify a general direction for reform efforts. They also feel that the political parties should be the prime movers in formulating and implementing changes.
Download or read book Presidential Primaries and Nominations written by William J. Crotty and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearing on the 2008 Presidential Primaries and Caucuses written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iowa Precinct Caucuses written by Hugh Winebrenner and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the role of the media in the American electoral process, focusing on Iowa as a prism on the national scene. The author examines the beginning of the precinct caucuses and the events which thrust them into the political spotlight in the early 1970s.
Download or read book Fundamentally Flawed written by John Haskell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are the electoral procedures used in presidential nomination campaigns? Haskell provides an overview of the historical developments that led to the presidential nomination process and analyzes the basic elements of public choice analysis as they apply to nomination campaigns. The book serves as a basic text and an introduction to the study of the nomination process as a method of public choice. Haskell argues that the current arrangements in the presidential nomination process are deeply flawed and offers a set of reforms to the existing system, including using approval voting in the earliest primaries and diminishing the effect of frontloading primaries. Fundamentally Flawed will interest scholars and students of American government, political parties, the presidency, and campaigns and elections.
Download or read book The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2024 written by Jonathan Bernstein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on original analysis from leading experts on presidential elections, Making of the Presidential Candidates 2024 describes all of the systematic aspects of the nomination campaign today: party rules, fundraising, media attention, voter coalitions, prospects for female candidates, and more. The contributors carefully consider the nature of modern political parties and the ways that expanded parties affect the dynamics of the campaign. The analysis is current up to the 2020 election. The only authoritative book on the all-important nominating process, Making of the Presidential Candidates 2024 will be valuable for college courses at all levels as well as practitioners and political junkies who want to understand the fundamental forces that shape nomination campaigns in the modern era.
Download or read book Presidential Primaries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Task Force on Elections and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process written by Steven S. Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2008 U.S. presidential campaign has provided a lifetime's worth of surprises. Once again, however, the nomination process highlighted the importance of organization, political prowess, timing, and money. And once again, it raised many hackles. The Democratic contest in particular generated many complaints—for example, it started too early, it was too long, and Super Tuesday was overloaded. This timely book synthesizes new analysis by premier political scientists into a cohesive look at the presidential nomination process—the ways in which it is broken and how it might be fixed. The contributors to Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process address different facets of the selection process, starting with a brief history of how we got to this point. They analyze the importance—and perceived unfairness—of the earliest primaries and discuss what led to record turnouts in 2008. What roles do media coverage and public endorsements play? William Mayer explains the "superdelegate" phenomenon and the controversy surrounding it; James Gibson and Melanie Springer evaluate public perceptions of the current process as well as possible reforms. Larry Sabato (A More Perfect Constitution) calls for a new nomination system, installed via constitutional amendment, while Tom Mann of Brookings opines on calls for reform that arose in 2008 and Daniel Lowenstein examines the process by which reforms may be adopted—or blocked.
Download or read book Presidential Primaries and Caucuses 1992 written by Alice V. McGillivray and published by CQ-Roll Call Group Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a basic reference for the study of the presidential selection process, Presidential Primaries and Caucuses: 1992 was first published in 1992 to cover the primaries and caucuses of that year. Included are final, official county-by-county results for every presidential primary held in 1992 -- primaries in 38 states and the District of Columbia. In addition, this volume includes data on the results of caucuses in states that use this system.This title is one of a complete library of election data reference books published by Congressional Quarterly to support research on national and state voting patterns.
Download or read book From the Primaries to the Polls written by Thomas Gangale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's presidential nominating process is inherently unfair and exclusive, yielding undue weight and privilege to the states that vote in the earliest rounds. More and more states are beating down the door to vote earlier, trying to redress the inequity on a state-by-state basis. In the ensuing free-for-all, the presidential primary schedule has become so front-loaded that the anointed front-runner with the biggest war chest in each of the major parties is the de facto nominee. The primaries are becoming mere noise and pageantry, as the national conventions have been for several decades. From the Primaries to the Polls describes the problem and proposes the solution. The American Plan is designed to begin with contests in small-population states, where candidates do not need millions of dollars to compete and a wide field of presidential hopefuls can be competitive in the early going. A minor candidate's surprise success in early rounds, based on merit rather than money, tends to attract money from larger numbers of small contributors for the campaign to spend in later rounds of primaries. Keeping more candidates in the race longer to challenge to the front-runners prevents a rush to judgment and permits more voters across the country to select from a diverse field. As the campaign proceeds over ten two-week intervals of primaries and caucuses on a semi-randomized schedule, the aggregate value of contested states becomes successively larger, requiring the expenditure of larger amounts of money in order to campaign effectively. A more gradual weeding-out process occurs, allowing a clear winner to emerge only after the full spectrum of candidates has been in play nationally.
Download or read book The Iowa Caucuses And The Presidential Nominating Process written by Peverill Squire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to better explain the Iowa caucuses and presents updated versions of the papers presented at a Shambaugh conference, "First in the Nation: Iowa and the Nomination Process," held at the University of Iowa, February 7-8, 1988.
Download or read book Presidential Primaries written by Lori Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Federalization of Presidential Primaries written by Austin Ranney and published by American Enterprise Institute Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Party Decides written by Marty Cohen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected superdelegates. This concern threw into relief the prevailing notion that—such unusually competitive cases notwithstanding—people, rather than parties, should and do control presidential nominations. But for the past several decades, The Party Decides shows, unelected insiders in both major parties have effectively selected candidates long before citizens reached the ballot box. Tracing the evolution of presidential nominations since the 1790s, this volume demonstrates how party insiders have sought since America’s founding to control nominations as a means of getting what they want from government. Contrary to the common view that the party reforms of the 1970s gave voters more power, the authors contend that the most consequential contests remain the candidates’ fights for prominent endorsements and the support of various interest groups and state party leaders. These invisible primaries produce frontrunners long before most voters start paying attention, profoundly influencing final election outcomes and investing parties with far more nominating power than is generally recognized.
