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Kamarck, Elaine Ciulla, author.

Primary politics : everything you need to know about how America nominates its presidential candidates / Elaine C. Kamarck.

2024 presidential election edition.

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of the The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2023]

xiv, 261 pages ; 23 cm

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Presidents -- United States -- Nomination.

Presidential candidates -- United States.

Political parties -- United States.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The good old days? : when parties controlled nominations and primaries were to be avoided at all costs -- Sequence as strategy : how Jimmy Carter "got it" and taught subsequent presidential candidates the new rules of the road -- The fight to the first : Iowa, New Hampshire and more -- Proportional representation : why Democrats use it and Republicans don't -- Devil in the details : how the delegate count shapes modern nominating campaigns -- Do conventions matter anymore? : why no one could stop Trump -- The loss of peer review and what it means for democracy.

JK521 .K36 2023

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