Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates

Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know about How America Nominates Its Presidential Candidates
ISBN-10
0815735278
ISBN-13
9780815735274
Series
Primary Politics
Category
Political Science
Pages
251
Language
English
Published
2018-10-30
Author
Elaine C. Kamarck

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"Explores one of the most important questions in American politics--how we narrow the list of presidential candidates every four years. Focuses on how presidential candidates have sought to alter the rules in their favor and how their failures and successes have led to even more change"--Provided by publisher.

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