The Party Decides
Title | The Party Decides PDF eBook |
Author | Marty Cohen |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2009-05-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0226112381 |
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.
The Reform Party
Title | The Reform Party PDF eBook |
Author | Tricia Andryszewski |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Political parties |
ISBN | 9780761319061 |
Recounts the history of the Reform Party with brief biographies of its three most visible presidential candidates.
Party Reform
Title | Party Reform PDF eBook |
Author | Anika Gauja |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0198717164 |
This book explains why, and how, political parties in several advanced democracies are undertaking high-profile organizational reforms.
Curing the Mischiefs of Faction
Title | Curing the Mischiefs of Faction PDF eBook |
Author | Austin Ranney |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520320808 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.
Consequences of Party Reform
Title | Consequences of Party Reform PDF eBook |
Author | Nelson W. Polsby |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Assesses what effect the Democratic reforms of 1968 have had on American politics and suggests practical changes that could improve current political practices.
Dismantling the Parties
Title | Dismantling the Parties PDF eBook |
Author | Jeane J. Kirkpatrick |
Publisher | American Enterprise Institute Press |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Rethinking Party Reform
Title | Rethinking Party Reform PDF eBook |
Author | Fabio Wolkenstein |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2019-12-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0192589830 |
The functioning of representative democracy crucially depends on political parties that mediate between citizens and the state. It is widely doubted, however, that contemporary parties can still perform this connective role. Taking seriously the ensuing challenges for representative democracy, Rethinking Party Reform advances a normative account of party reform, drawing on both democratic theory and political science scholarship on parties. Moving beyond purely descriptive or causal-analytical perspectives on party reform, the book clarifies on theoretical grounds why party reform is centrally important for the sustainability of established democracies, and what effective party reforms could look like in an age where most citizens look to parties with scepticism and distrust. In doing so, this book underlines in distinctive fashion why scholars and citizens should care about re-inventing and transforming political parties, resisting widespread tendencies of either declaring parties unreformable or theorising them out of the picture.