The Demise of the American Convention System, 1880-1911

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

AvJohn F. Reynolds

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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 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-12-07
Mått160 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor286
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521859639

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John F. Reynolds is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He is the author of Testing Democracy, Electoral Behavior and Progressive Reform in New Jersey, 1880-1920 and has published articles in the Journal of American History, Social Science History, Historical Methods, and The Historian.

Impressively researched, analytically sophisticated, persuasively argued, this book revises much of what scholars have believed about American political parties and political reform around the turn of the twentieth century. By carefully examining the interaction between party structures and political candidates, John Reynolds clarifies the evolution of nominating practices from the convention system to the direct primary and more broadly illuminates the disputed relationship between behavioral and institutional changes in American politics. Both historians and political scientists will welcome this fresh and provocative work. Peter H. Argersinger, Southern Illinois University