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An Incremental Approach to Presidential Nomination Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2009

William G. Mayer
William G. Mayer
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Northeastern University
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In a book published four years ago, Andrew Busch and I divided proposals to reform the presidential nomination process into two categories, which we called comprehensive and incremental (see Mayer and Busch 2004, chapter 5). Like any attempt to classify a complex reality, this distinction blurs a bit at the edges, but the basic idea should be clear. Comprehensive proposals call for major, far-reaching changes in the basic operations of the presidential nomination process; incremental proposals make more limited, marginal changes in the rules, while retaining the fundamental structure of the existing system.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 65 - 69
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2009

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