Strategic Decision-Making in Presidential Nominations : When and Why Party Elites Decide to Support a Candidate.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (220 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Party Elite Survival in Presidential Nominations -- The Setting: Superdelegates, 2008 -- Elite Endorsements: An Event History -- The Relevance of Political Context -- The Candidates: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton -- Superdelegate Endorsements -- Conceptual Framework -- Methodology -- Data Source and Collection -- Key Terms -- Plan of the Book -- Chapter 2: Historical Context of Superdelegates -- Nominations by Congressional Caucuses -- Nominations by Convention -- Nominations by Presidential Primaries -- Reforming the Democratic Presidential Nomination Process -- 1968 and the McGovern-Fraser Commission -- Reforming the Nomination Process: Mikulski and Winograd Commissions -- Concluding Comments -- Chapter 3: Superdelegates in the Presidential Nomination Process -- Back to the Future: The Hunt Commission and the Superdelegates -- Party Reassertion: 2008 and the Superdelegates -- Superdelegates and Peer Review -- Endorsements of Superdelegates -- Concluding Comments -- Chapter 4: The Invisible Primary -- The Invisible Primary -- The Setting -- The Candidates -- The Politics of Early Endorsements -- Assessing the Timing of Superdelegate Endorsements: Arguments, Hypotheses, and Measurements -- Demographic Influences -- Member Characteristics -- Campaign Factors -- Surviving the Invisible Primary -- The Correlates of Survival -- Concluding Comments -- Chapter 5: The Primary Season -- The Setting -- Methods of Selection and Scheduling -- The Primary Season and Superdelegate Endorsements -- A Model of Superdelegate Endorsement in the Primary Season -- Surviving the Primary -- Concluding Comments -- Chapter 6: The Politics of Attrition -- Timing and Attrition of Party Elite Endorsements -- Hypotheses -- Surviving the Entire Nomination Process. Determinants of Commitment Status -- Concluding Comments -- Chapter 7: Conclusions and Implications -- Contributions: Conceptual Framework and Findings -- Party Elites and Democracy -- The Future of Party Elites in Presidential Nominations -- Appendix A: Summary Statistics for Variables, the Invisible Primary 2007 -- Appendix B: Summary Statistics for Variables, the Primary 2008 -- Appendix C: Summary Statistics for Variables, Entire Period -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Seeks to understand and explain the behavior of party elites during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential race.
9781438449210
Presidents-United States-Nomination. Presidents-United States-Nomination-History-21st century. Primaries-United States. Primaries-United States-History-21st century. Political science-United States-Decision making.