Support for Nationalizing Presidential Elections.
Despite very different historical and constitutional bases for how we nominate presidential candidates and elect presidents to office, as well as very different political processes (sequential versus simultaneous voting), both the presidential nominating process and the Electoral College are rooted...
| Publicado en: | Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 771 - 794 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
December 2010
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=510955198&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 510955198 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03604918 PRQ jtl: Presidential Studies Quarterly issn: 03604918 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: December 2010 vid: 40 iid: 4 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 510955198 ppf: 771 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: Support for Nationalizing Presidential Elections. aug: au: Karp, Jeffrey A. Tolbert, Caroline J. su: Presidential nominations Presidents of the United States Electoral college United States elections Public opinion U.S. states politics & government Reforms Election law United States sug: subj: United States Presidential nominations Presidents of the United States Electoral college United States elections Public opinion U.S. states politics & government Reforms Election law ab: Despite very different historical and constitutional bases for how we nominate presidential candidates and elect presidents to office, as well as very different political processes (sequential versus simultaneous voting), both the presidential nominating process and the Electoral College are rooted in state elections, not a national election, and both create state winners and losers. Previous research has not explored the role of state influence or state self-interest in presidential elections. States that vote early in the nomination process benefit, as do battleground states in the genera election, especially small-population states. Given the fundamentally different types of elections examined, in this paper, it is surprising that very similar forces shape efforts to nationalize presidential elections. Popular reform options of both the nomination process (national primary) and the general election (national popular vote) focus on a single national election in which the nation's interests, rather than state interests, are paramount. This analysis of 2008 panel survey data shows that citizen opinions on nationalizing presidential elections through a national primary or national popular vote for president are based on strategic decisions defined by short-term electoral politics and long-term self-interest rooted in an individual's state. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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