PLAP 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Party System, Pathos, John Stuart Mill
11 Dec 2016
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One famous political science book - the party decides - argues that usually party leaders help select the nominee they want before the primaries even begin. They do so by providing candidates with money, resources, and public support in the form of endorsements. In the case of the clinton-sanders primary match-up, is possible that this theory works. At the very least, it would have predicted this outcome: Clinton was more popular among party leaders, got more endorsements. But in the gop, the outcome does not make sense at all. Trump was not popular among party leaders; didn"t receive many endorsements. The main problem is that the gatekeepers in modern american political parties are weak. Specifically, there are three reasons why trump managed to get the nomination. 1) american political parties can"t decide who does or does not get to run. In most countries, political parties are membership organizations.
