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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 | |