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Article: The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform.(Book review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2009
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The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform. By Marry Cohen, David Karol, Hans Noel, and John Zaller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 404 pp.
In The Party Decides, the authors put forward a theory of political parties that they examine and test through an analysis of the presidential nomination process. There are two important concepts in their theoretical framework. The first is that issue-oriented "policy demanders" create and run political parties. This understanding of parties is offered in direct contrast to that of political parties as the creations of ambitious politicians. This model of "politician-centered parties" is ...