Nomination and Election of the President and Vice President of the United States, 1992
Author: Thomas M. Durbin
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13:
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Presidential Primaries and Caucuses, 1992
Author: Alice V. McGillivray
Publisher: CQ-Roll Call Group Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780871878908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned 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.
The Divided Democrats
Author: William G. Mayer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-02
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0429972504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo Democrats have greater difficulty maintaining party unity than Republicans? William Mayer argues that they do, chiefly because the Democrats are a more ideologically diverse, less cohesive party. After extensively documenting the Democrats' traditional problems of division and disagreement, Mayer presents evidence suggesting that the Republican advantage over the Democrats has finally started to narrow—raising important questions about the future of the Republican coalition.
The Best Candidate
Author: Eugene D. Mazo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-17
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1108835392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading scholars examine the law governing the American presidential nomination process and offer practical ideas for reform.
Guide to the 1992 Presidential Election
Author: Michael L. Goldstein
Publisher: CQ-Roll Call Group Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNomination and Election of the President and Vice President of the United States, Including the Manner of Selecting Delegates to National Political Conventions
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 290
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Primary Rules
Author: Caitlin E. Jewitt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2019-01-14
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0472124595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReflecting on 2016, it might seem that the national parties have little control over how the presidential nominations unfold and who becomes their presidential candidate. Yet the parties wield more influence than voters in determining who prevails at the National Conventions. Although the reforms of the late 1960s and 1970s gave rank-and-file party members a clear voice in the selection of presidential candidates, the parties retain influence through their ability to set the electoral rules. Despite this capability, party elites do not always fully understand the consequences of the rules and therefore often promote a system that undermines their goals. The Primary Rules illuminates the balance of power that the parties, states, and voters assert on the process. By utilizing an original, comprehensive data set that details the electoral rules each party employed in each state during every nomination from 1976 to 2016, Caitlin E. Jewitt uncovers the effects of the rules on the competitiveness of the nomination, the number of voters who participate, and the nomination outcomes. This reveals how the parties exert influence over their members and limit the impact of voters. The Primary Rules builds on prior analyses and extends work highlighting the role of the parties in the invisible primary stage, as it investigates the parties’ influence once the nominations begin. The Primary Rules provides readers with a clearer sense of what the rules are, how they have changed, their consequences, and practical guidance on how to modify the rules of the nomination system to achieve their desired outcomes in future elections.
The Electoral College
Author: William C. Kimberling
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReforming the Presidential Nomination Process
Author: Steven S. Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 081570349X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Delegate Apportionment in the US Presidential Primaries
Author: Michael A. Jones
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-03-18
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 3031249542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a comprehensive mathematical description and analysis of the delegate allocation processes in the US Democratic and Republican presidential primaries, focusing on the role of apportionment methods and the effect of thresholds—the minimum levels of support required to receive delegates. The analysis involves a variety of techniques, including theoretical arguments, simplicial geometry, Monte Carlo simulation, and examination of presidential primary data from 2004 to 2020. The book is divided into two parts: Part I defines the classical apportionment problem and explains how the implementation and goals of delegate apportionment differ from those of apportionment for state representation in the US House of Representatives and for party representation in legislatures based on proportional representation. The authors then describe how delegates are assigned to states and congressional districts and formally define the delegate apportionment methods used in each state by the two major parties to allocate delegates to presidential candidates. Part II analyzes and compares the apportionment methods introduced in Part I based on their level of bias and adherence to various notions of proportionality. It explores how often the methods satisfy the quota condition and quantifies their biases in favor or against the strongest and weakest candidates. Because the methods are quota-based, they are susceptible to classical paradoxes like the Alabama and population paradoxes. They also suffer from other paradoxes that are more relevant in the context of delegate apportionment such as the elimination and aggregation paradoxes. The book evaluates the extent to which each method is susceptible to each paradox. Finally, it discusses the appointment of delegates based on divisor methods and notions of regressive proportionality. This book appeals to scholars and students interested in mathematical economics and political science, with an emphasis on apportionment and social choice theory.
