Choosing Our Choices: Debating the Presidential Nominating Process

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· Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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176
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About this ebook

Probably no feature of the American political system has been subject to more sustained criticism over the last twenty-five years than the process by which we choose our presidents. In Choosing Our Choices, Robert E. DiClerico and James W. Davis debate the question: should we retain the present, primary centered 'direct democracy' method in selecting presidential candidates or should we return to a representative decision-making process to nominate our candidates? This timely and thought-provoking text offers the reader a concise yet comprehensive analysis of the presidential nominating system, arguments for and against the current system, and supplemental documents and essays for further reading. Choosing Our Choices will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in exploring how Americans choose their leaders.

About the author

Robert E. DiClerico is professor of political science at West Virginia University and author of The American President, Few Are Choosen: Problems in the Presidential Selection, and Analyzing the Presidency. James W. Davis is professor of political science emeritus at Western Washington University and author of Presidential Primaries: Road to the White House, National Conventions in an Age of Party Reform, and U.S. Presidential Primaries and the Caucus-Convention System. Marc Landy is professor of political science at Boston College.

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