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“An important argument of this book, however, is that parties try, via
the candidates they nominate and elect, to pull policy toward what their interest and activist groups want, even if that is not what most voters want.”
― The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform
the candidates they nominate and elect, to pull policy toward what their interest and activist groups want, even if that is not what most voters want.”
― The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform
“Parties also must work together in order to succeed. If the coalition splits into competing factions, each pledged to a different candidate, voters become the real power by choosing between the insider-backed candidates. This happened in 2008 but is not the modal pattern.”
― The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform
― The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform
“The average delegate never knows what is going on. The hall is in dreadful confusion, and the speeches from the platforms are mainly irrelevant and unintelligible. The real business of a national convention is done down under the stage, in dark and smelly rooms, or in hotel suites miles away. Presently a State boss fights his way out to his delegation on the floor, and tells his slaves what is to be voted on, and how they are to vote. (Cited in Hinderaker 1956, 158)”
― The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform
― The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform
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