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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

Many people complain about the complex system used to nominate presidents. The system is hardly rational because it was never carefully planned. Because of the dissatisfaction over the idiosyncrasies of the current system, periodic calls arise to reform the presidential nomination process. But how are we to make sense of the myriad complexities in the system as well as in the calls for change?In The Imperfect Primary , political scientist Barbara Norrander explores how presidential candidates are nominated, discusses past and current proposals ... MORE

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List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Happenstance and Reforms	p. 1
A Short History of Presidential Nominations	p. 6
Two Early Views: Nomination by Political Elites	p. 8
The Party Convention Eras	p. 11
The Origins of Presidential Primaries	p. 13
A Mixed System: Conventions and Primaries, 1948-1960	p. 15
Moving to a. Primary-Dominated System	p. 16
The Primary-Dominated Era: 1972 and Forward	p. 22
Presidential Nomination Politics at the Dawn of the 21 st Century	p. 25
Recent Nomination Contests	p. 26
The Candidates	p. 31
The (Nov So) Invisible Primary	p. 35
The Two-Tiered Nomination Process	p. 45
Changing Technology, Changing Campaign Strategies	p. 54
Third-Party Nominations	p. 56
Nomination Controversies	p. 57
Is This a Fair Way to Select a Presidential Nominee?	p. 59
General Criticisms of Primary-Centered Nominations	p. 61
Who Should Vote	p. 65
Are Caucuses Fair?	p. 69
Concerns over Convention Delegate Selection	p. 71
Superdelegates	p. 78
Winning Votes Versus Winning Pledged Delegates	p. 81
The Accidental Calendar, Part 1: Iowa and New Hampshire Come First	p. 88
The Accidental Calendar, Part 2: The Perils of Front-Loading	p. 91
A Hodgepodge of Rules and Procedures	p. 92
Alternative Methods for Nominating Presidents	p. 94
Regional Primary Plans	p. 95
Grouping States by Population Size: The Delaware Plan	p. 98
Other Variants of Grouped Primaries	p. 100
One-Day National Primary	p. 103
Alternative Mechanisms for Counting the Votes in a National Primary	p. 105
Convention-Centered Plans	p. 110
Pathways to Reform	p. 112
Rescuing the Matching Funds System	p. 115
Predicting the Consequences of Reform	p. 117
Oddities, Biases, and Strengths of U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics	p. 119
Oddities in U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics	p. 120
Biases in U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics	p. 122
Strengths of U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics	p. 125
Nominating Presidents in a System with Oddities, Biases, and Strengths	p. 127
Notes	p. 129
Bibliography	p. 141
Index	p. 150
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Barbara Norrander is a Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. She has been writing about presidential nominations since the early 1980s.

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