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4 - Winnowing and Endorsing: Separating the Two Distinct Functions of Party Primaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2020

Eugene D. Mazo
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
Michael R. Dimino
Affiliation:
Widener University Commonwealth Law School
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With the increasing fear that democracy is faltering worldwide, it is perhaps naïve to think that there could actually exist a rational and well-ordered system for electing the president of the United States. Yet the opposite idea—that the process for picking the president is irrational and arbitrary, failing to reflect the real preferences of the electorate—is deeply unsettling. The American president wields too much power for the incumbent to be the product of an incoherent procedure. For the sake of humanity as a whole, as well as the people of the United States, it is essential to endeavor as best as is humanly possible to conceptualize what a coherent and sensible system for presidential elections might be.

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The Best Candidate
Presidential Nomination in Polarized Times
, pp. 80 - 104
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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