The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2004

by Busch, Andrew E.; Cornfield, Michael; Corrado, Anthony; Dark III, Taylor E.; Gouvêa, Heitor; Mayer, William G.; McCann, James A.; Seiger, Jonah; Shribman, David M.; Smith, Andrew E.; Dunn Tenpas, and Kathryn

• ISBN13: 9780742529199
• ISBN10: 0742529193
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-25
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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 Gouvêa
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