Reforming Presidential Nominations: Rotating State Primaries or a National Primary?

Reforming Presidential Nominations: Rotating State Primaries or a National Primary?

Measuring the Consequences of Delegate Selection Rules in Presidential Nominations

In this paper, we formalize existing normative criteria used to judge presidential selection contests by modeling the translation of citizen votes in primaries and caucuses into delegates to the national party conventions. We use a statistical model that enables us to separate the form of electoral responsiveness in presidential selection systems, as well as the degree of bias toward each of th...

Health care reform in the 2008 presidential primaries.

/A s noted previously in thisjournal,health care ^ = ^ reform has again become a central political X JA-issue (Gorin & Moniz, 2007). This article examines the health care debate in the presidential primary campaigns and considers implications for future health pohcy. As of this writing, no candidate on either side has officially won their party's nomination. Consequently, we focus on the positi...

Early Primaries, Viability and Changing Preferences for Presidential Candidates

Given the fluid context of primaries and observed swings in national polls, many Democratic voters likely switched candidate support over the course of the 2008 primary campaign. We examine how perceptions of early caucus and primary outcomes subsequently affected voter choice and candidate momentum. Although the 2008 calendar left many voters with a brief window to assess candidates, it noneth...

Nominations NATIONAL TOXICOLOGY PROGRAM CHEMICAL TESTING

The UAW believes that NTP should explore additional options for testing of chemicals beyond inclusion on this test list, and for funding this testing while using NTP protocols. In particularly, the UAW urges NTP to explore with EPA the use of authority under the Toxic Substances Control Act to promulgate test rules to compel producers of chemicals to provide funding for bioassays. In addition, ...