The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform

by John Zaller, Hans Noel, David Karol, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226112373
• ISBN13: 9780226112374
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"