Fundamentally Flawed: Understanding and Reforming Presidential Primaries - Hardcover

Haskell, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847682404 ISBN 13: 9780847682409

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996

Synopsis

How are the electoral procedures used in presidential nomination campaigns? Haskell provides an overview of the historical developments that led to the presidential nomination process and analyzes the basic elements of public choice analysis as they apply to nomination campaigns. The book serves as a basic text and an introduction to the study of the nomination process as a method of public choice. Haskell argues that the current arrangements in the presidential nomination process are deeply flawed and offers a set of reforms to the existing system, including using approval voting in the earliest primaries and diminishing the effect of frontloading primaries. Fundamentally Flawed will interest scholars and students of American government, political parties, the presidency, and campaigns and elections.

About this title

Synopsis:

Examining the fairness of the electoral procedures used in presidential nomination campaigns, this book offers an overview of the historical developments that led to the presidential nomination process and analyses the basic elements of public choice analysis as they apply to nomination campaigns.

About the Author:

John Haskell is assistant professor of political science at Drake University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0847682404
• ISBN 13: 9780847682409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 174