The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2004

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-09-03
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2004 provides a broad overview of the presidential nomination process through a detailed examination of its most significant components: money and media, polls and interest groups, Iowa and New Hampshire, the invisible primary and the formal primary calendar.

Author Biography

William G. Mayer is associate professor of political science at Northeastern University.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
1 The Front-Loading Problem 1(44)
Andrew E. Busch and William G. Mayer
2 Financing Presidential Nominations under the BCRA 45(38)
Anthony Corrado and Heitor Gouvea
3 The Basic Dynamics of the Contemporary Nomination Process: An Expanded View 83(50)
William G. Mayer
4 How Incumbent Presidents Run for Reelection 133(28)
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas
5 From Resistance to Adaptation: Organized Labor Reacts to a Changing Nominating Process 161(38)
Taylor E. Dark III
6 The Net and the Nomination 199(30)
Michael Cornfield and Jonah Seiger
7 Only a Lunatic Would Do This Kind of Work: A Journalist's Perspective on the Perspective of Journalists 229(16)
David M. Shribman
8 The Perils of Polling in New Hampshire 245(20)
Andrew E. Smith
9 The Emerging International Trend toward Open Presidential Primaries: The American Presidential Nomination Process in Comparative Perspective 265(30)
James A. McCann
Index 295(10)
About the Contributors 305

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