Primary politics : everything you need to know about how America nominates its presidential candidates
Record details
- ISBN: 9780815727750
- ISBN: 0815727755
- ISBN: 9780815727767
- ISBN: 9780815727774
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Physical Description:
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xii, 220 pages ; 23 cm - Edition: Second edition.
- Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-208) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. The good old days? : when parties controlled nominations and primaries were to be avoided at all costs -- 2. Sequence as strategy : how Jimmy Carter "got it" and taught subsequent presidential candidates the new rules of the road -- 3. The fight to be first : why Iowa and New Hampshire dominate presidential nominating politics -- 4. Proportional representation : why Democrats use it and Republicans don't -- 5. Devil in the details : how the delegate count shapes modern nominating campaigns -- 6. Do conventions matter anymore? : superdelegates, the Robot Rule, and the modern nominating convention -- 7. The problem of "The Decider." |
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Subject: | Presidents United States Nomination Presidential candidates United States |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | JK 521 .K36 2016 | 30775305509797 | General Collection | Available | - |