Presidential Nominations Since Party Reform

Authors

  • Leon D. Epstein

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1993.14.0.149-162

Abstract

The much criticized presidential nominating system of 1972-1992 looks more defensible when it is compared with alternative systems. For analytical purposes, the proposed or conceivable options are discussed under six rubrics, ranging from least to most participatory. Each alternative, it is argued, is either politically unrealistic or less desirable than the present system. An advantage of that system, as we know from the experience of the last twenty years, is that it allows incremental changes that might be more difficult to make under a nationally legislated plan. Thus, improvements can be contemplated by states and parties without a virtually irreversible transformation of the system.

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1993-07-01

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Vol. 14: Summer 1993

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