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ISBN: 9780511511684 9780521859639 9781107404854 0511250029 9780511250026 9780511250538 0511250533 051151168X 9786610703555 6610703558 0521859638 1107167450 1280703555 0511248962 0511319215 0511249519 1107404851 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
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During the nineteenth century American political parties selected their candidates for elective offices in conventions. Around 1910 most states established a system of direct primaries whereby the voters selected their parties' nominees for public office. This book, first published in 2006, examines the transition from the indirect to the direct primary, as well as its implications for American politics. It offers a systematic analysis of the convention system in four states (New Jersey, Michigan, Colorado and California) and the legislative history of the regulation of political parties during the Progressive Era. It argues that the major political parties themselves were chiefly responsible for doing away with the nominating convention. Candidates played a pivotal role in inaugurating the new nominating system as they became more open and aggressive in pursuit of their parties' nominations. The convention system was never designed to withstand the pressures exerted on it by a more competitive nominating process.
Political conventions --- Nominations for office --- Political parties --- Office, Nominations for --- Office, Qualifications for --- Qualifications for office --- Election law --- Elections --- Politics, Practical --- Representative government and representation --- Primaries --- History. --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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ISBN: 9788021077966 8021077964 9788021062139 8021062134 Year: 2013 Publisher: Brno, [Czech Republic] : Masarykova univerzita, Fakulta sociálních studií, Mezinárodní politologický ústav,
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The selection of candidates is one of the most important processes related to elections which are the key aspect of the functioning of modern democracies. The shape and the outcomes of nomination processes reveal how political parties operate within their organizations. The process of candidate selection also affects the real politics as the political elite is formed from the group of elected candidates. For these reasons, this topic is slowly gaining significance in political science. The book follows these trends and focuses on the nomination processes in the Czech political parties for elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 2010. Its aim is not only to map and analyse the Czech case, but also to contribute to the theoretical debate about how to study the selection of candidates in a broader sense.
Nominations for office --- Political parties --- Political candidates --- Office, Nominations for --- Office, Qualifications for --- Qualifications for office --- Election law --- Elections --- Politics, Practical --- Representative government and representation --- Political conventions --- Primaries --- Candidates, Political --- Nominees, Political --- Political nominees --- Politicians --- Parties, Political --- Party systems, Political --- Political party systems --- Political science --- Divided government --- Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) --- Czech Republic. --- Elections, 2010.
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