Eternal bandwagon : the politics of presidential selection / Byron E. Shafer, Elizabeth M. Sawyer.
Shafer, Byron E., author.; Sawyer, Elizabeth M., author.
2021
JK521 .S53 2021
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Title Eternal bandwagon : the politics of presidential selection / Byron E. Shafer, Elizabeth M. Sawyer.
Author Shafer, Byron E., author.
ISBN 9783030517991 (electronic bk.)
3030517993 (electronic bk.)
3030517985
9783030517984
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51799-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-51799-1 doi
Call Number JK521 .S53 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 324.273015
Summary Orthodox reporting and conventional scholarship focuses on the factors that distinguish each presidential contest and then attempts to explain them. This book rather, demonstrates that the politics of presidential nomination has been remarkably stable in the United States since the 1830s and right through to 2020. A common bandwagon dynamic, rolling once through party organizations and now through presidential primaries, permits a simple measure that has predicted nominations well before the decisive threshold was reached, while allowing precise comparisons across the years. So it becomes possible to separate the handful of things that matter for winnowing a large and diverse society into two individual presidential nominees. This funnel of causality moves through the occupational and careers seedbeds of a field of presidential aspirants, squeezing these fields by way of a small set of structural shapers, until party factions and factional struggles--not rules of the game, not candidate characteristics, not nominating strategies, nor all the other ephemera so beloved of commentators and observers--actually choose a given nominee. Byron E. Shafer is Hawkins Chair of Political Science Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Elizabeth M. Sawyer is a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2020).
Added Author Sawyer, Elizabeth M., author.
Series Evolving American presidency.
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