Eternal Bandwagon: The Politics of Presidential Selection

by Elizabeth M Sawyer, Bryon E Shafer, Byron E. Shafer

Book Overview

Orthodox reporting and conventional scholarship focuses on the factors that distinguish each presidential contest and then attempts to explain them. This book rather, demonstrates that the politics of presidential nomination has been remarkably stable in the United States since the 1830s and right through to 2020. A common bandwagon dynamic, rolling once through party organizations and now through presidential primaries, permits a simple measure that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030517985
• ISBN13: 9783030517984
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.6" x 8.6"