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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Happenstance and Reforms | |
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| A Short History of Presidential Nominations | |
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| Two Early Views: Nomination by Political Elites | |
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| The Party Convention Eras | |
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| The Origins of Presidential Primaries | |
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| A Mixed System: Conventions and Primaries, 1948-1960 | |
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| Moving to a. Primary-Dominated System | |
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| The Primary-Dominated Era: 1972 and Forward | |
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| Presidential Nomination Politics at the Dawn of the 21 st Century | |
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| Recent Nomination Contests | |
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| The Candidates | |
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| The (Nov So) Invisible Primary | |
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| The Two-Tiered Nomination Process | |
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| Changing Technology, Changing Campaign Strategies | |
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| Third-Party Nominations | |
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| Nomination Controversies | |
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| Is This a Fair Way to Select a Presidential Nominee? | |
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| General Criticisms of Primary-Centered Nominations | |
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| Who Should Vote | |
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| Are Caucuses Fair? | |
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| Concerns over Convention Delegate Selection | |
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| Superdelegates | |
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| Winning Votes Versus Winning Pledged Delegates | |
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| The Accidental Calendar, Part 1: Iowa and New Hampshire Come First | |
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| The Accidental Calendar, Part 2: The Perils of Front-Loading | |
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| A Hodgepodge of Rules and Procedures | |
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| Alternative Methods for Nominating Presidents | |
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| Regional Primary Plans | |
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| Grouping States by Population Size: The Delaware Plan | |
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| Other Variants of Grouped Primaries | |
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| One-Day National Primary | |
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| Alternative Mechanisms for Counting the Votes in a National Primary | |
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| Convention-Centered Plans | |
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| Pathways to Reform | |
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| Rescuing the Matching Funds System | |
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| Predicting the Consequences of Reform | |
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| Oddities, Biases, and Strengths of U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics | |
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| Oddities in U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics | |
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| Biases in U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics | |
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| Strengths of U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics | |
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| Nominating Presidents in a System with Oddities, Biases, and Strengths | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |