Strategic decision-making in presidential nominations : : when and why party elites decide to support a candidate / / Kenny J. Whitby.

"Evaluates the how democratic presidential nominations are, using the historic race between Senators Obama and Clinton as a test case"--Provided by publisher.

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Place / Publishing House:Albany : : State University of New York Press,, [2014]
2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (220 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: party elite survival in presidential nominations
  • Historical context of superdelegates
  • Superdelegates in the presidential nomination process
  • The invisible primary
  • The primary season
  • The politics of attrition
  • Conclusions and implications.