Overview
- Returns constantly to the question of what is genuinely new in presidential selection and what is the modern incarnation of something that should seem familiar
- Makes the distinction between a fundamentally dynamic process and the adaptations that always come with it
- Provides coverage of all the main recognized elements of the politics of presidential selection, but in a new and more contemporary way
- Focuses on the modern period but is solidly rooted in American political history
Part of the book series: The Evolving American Presidency (EAP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Presidential Elections
- Presidency
- American Presidency
- Elections & Voting
- Political Parties
- Presidential Nomination
- Republican
- Democrat
- American Political History
- General Election
- Nomination Politics
- Nominating Rules
- Candidate strategies
- State Sequences
- Constituencies
- Institutional Dynamics
- Donald Trump
- Hilary Clinton
- Bernie Sanders
- Barack Obama
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Reviews
—Larry M. Bartels, Professor, Vanderbilt University, USA
“What sets this study apart from virtually everything else that has recently been written about presidential nominations is the remarkable scope of the inquiry. Where most recent work on this topic has been about one election or one component of the nomination process, Shafer and Sawyer’s book seeks to examine every major component of the process, for the entire period from 1832 to the present, and organizes those components according to the point at which they enter the ‘causal funnel.’ This book raises the bar for all future studies of the presidential nomination process.”
—William G. Mayer, Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University, USA
“Many books on the politics of the presidential nomination process focus on the modern era in which candidates vie for the nomination by competing in a series of state-by-state contests. This book offers an important new take by linking the modern era to the past. Through an original analysis of nearly 200 years of nomination contests, Shafer and Sawyer show how a dominant nominating dynamic runs through them all. Most critically, they demonstrate how factional alignments and struggles within the two major parties shape the choice among contenders. The authors argue that it is these deep structural influences—not the candidates themselves, the media who cover them, or the decisions of party leaders—that provide the most insight into the logic of the presidential nomination process.”
—Amber Wichowsky, Associate Professor, Marquette University, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Elizabeth M. Sawyer is a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. She is currently completing a doctoral dissertation on "How the Sausage Gets Made: Constitutions, Rules and Norms in State Legislature." She also studies presidential nominations, campaign finance, and the nature of effective representation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Eternal Bandwagon
Book Subtitle: The Politics of Presidential Selection
Authors: Byron E. Shafer, Elizabeth M. Sawyer
Series Title: The Evolving American Presidency
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51799-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51798-4Published: 03 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51801-1Published: 03 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51799-1Published: 02 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2945-6150
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6169
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 273
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: US Politics, Electoral Politics, Political Leadership