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Description of  Reforming the Presidential Nominating Process: Front-Loading's Consequences and the National Primary Solution (Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance)

The 2020 presidential selection process is already underway. As the political parties finalize their nominating rules and the states jostle for an advantageous contest date, potential challengers are being identified and sized up by party insiders. Once again, media and popular attention will be disproportionately focused on the candidates performance in the first and earliest of the state nominating contestsand on how quickly the sequence of primaries and caucuses winnows the field and identifies the presumptive nominees. But what are the implications of a sequential and front-loaded nominating calendar that gives some voters outsized influence while leaving many others with a constrained choiceor no choicein the selection of their partys presidential nominee? Read more