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"Primary elections for choosing party leaders and candidates are now becoming commonplace in Europe, Asia and America but questions as to how much they hinder a party's organizational strength and cohesion or affect electoral performance have largely been ignored outside of the USA. 'Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective' gives a much-needed conceptualization to this topic, describing the function and nature of primary elections and providing a comparative analytical framework to the impact of primaries on the internal and external functioning of political parties. Elaborating on the analytical tools developed to study the US experience this framework engages with primary elections in Europe and Asia offering a theoretical, comparative and empirical account of the emergence of party primaries and an invaluable guide to internal electoral processes and their impact."--

Primary season -- Why we need primaries and caucuses -- So, what is a primary? -- What about caucuses? -- Before there were primaries -- The role of delegates -- Superdelegates -- Campaigning -- Why are Iowa and New Hampshire so important? -- Super Tuesday -- Narrowing the field -- The conventions -- Front-loading -- Now vote! -- Glossary -- Index -- Websites.

1. Introduction : primary elections across the world / Giulia Sandri and Antonella Seddone -- 2. Leadership selection versus candidate selection : similarities and differences / Ofer Kenig, Gideon Rahat and Reuven Y. Hazan -- 3. The American experience of primary elections in comparative perspective / Alan Ware -- 4. Democratising party leadership selection in Spain and Portugal / Oscar Barbera, Marco Lisi and Juan Rodriguez Teruel -- 5. Democratising party leadership selection in Belgium and Israel / Bram Wauters, Gideon Rahat and Ofer Kenig -- 6. Democratising party leadership selection in Japan and Taiwan / Yohei Narita, Ryo Nakai and Keiichi Kubo -- 7. Democratising candidate selection in Italy and France / Marino De Luca and Fulvio Venturino -- 8. Democratising candidate selection in Romania and Slovakia / Sergiu Gherghina and Peter Spac -- 9. Democratising candidate selection in Iceland / Indridi H. Indriason and Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson -- 10. Conclusion / Giulia Sandri, Antonella Seddone and Fulvio Venturino.

This is a study of Kentucky political parties: how they are organized and how they nominate and elect candidates. Because state politics in Kentucky is dominated by the Democratic Party, a major portion of the study is devoted to the Democratic primary candidates, campaign techniques, funding, of elections, and voting patterns.As in other slates, campaign techniques in Kentucky are changing. During the 1950s and 1960s the Democratic Party had two dominant factions, and candidates for statewide office sought factional allies among local party organizations. Now factional alignments have disappe

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Introduction Does One Vote Count? -- Chapter One How Voting Works -- Chapter Two Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions -- Chapter three The Campaign and the Voters -- Chapter Four The Electoral College -- Chapter Five Election Day Promises and Problems -- Chapter Six Counting the Vote -- Source Notes -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Further Information -- Index -- Photo Acknowledgments -- Back Cover

Super Tuesday 1988 was the first successful attempt to get several states in one region to hold their presidential primaries on the same day. Its success -- or lack thereof -- will affect the way presidents are elected for many years to come.Reaching beyond Super Tuesday and the nominations of George Bush and Michael Dukakis, Barbara Norrander's book presents the nation's first regional primary as the latest chapter in the ever-changing system through which U.S. political parties choose their presidential candidates. Norrander's research details how changes in technology, candidate and media s

This innovative study blends sophisticated statistical analyses, campaign anecdotes, and penetrating political insight to produce a fascinating exploration of one of America's most controversial political institutions--the process by which our major parties nominate candidates for the presidency. Larry Bartels focuses on the nature and impact of "momentum" in the contemporary nominating system. He describes the complex interconnections among primary election results, expectations, and subsequent primary results that have made it possible for candidates like Jimmy Carter, George Bush, and Gary Hart to emerge from relative obscurity into political prominence in recent nominating campaigns. In the course of his analysis, he addresses questions central to any understanding--or evaluation--of the modern nominating process. How do fundamental political predispositions influence the behavior of primary voters? How quickly does the public learn about new candidates? Under what circumstances will primary success itself generate subsequent primary success? And what are the psychological processes underlying this dynamic tendency? Professor Bartels examines the likely consequences of some proposed alternatives to the current nominating process, including a regional primary system and a one-day national primary. Thus the work will be of interest to political activists, would-be reformers, and interested observers of the American political scene, as well as to students of public opinion, voting behavior, the news media, campaigns, and electoral institutions

Part I. Description of Delegate Allocation Rules -- Chapter 1. Apportionment in the US Presidential Primaries -- Chapter 2. The Democratic Party Primary -- Chapter 3. The Iowa and Nevada Democratic Caucuses -- Chapter 4. The Republican Party Primary -- Part II. Analysis of Delegate Allocation Rules -- Chapter 5. Properties of the Apportionment Methods used in the Primaries -- Chapter 6. Paradoxes -- Chapter 7. Exploring Alternative Ways to Allocate Delegates.