A Danger of Democracy: The Presidential Nominating Process

by Terry Sanford

Overview

Quail hunte rs appreciate a bird dog that doesn't give up ,th at ch ases the last bird after a covey rises, that is joyouslyunwilling to let even one get away . Old Pal was such a pointer ,an d on one day he leaped for a last fluttering single , missed ,of course, but, sad to say, leaped also over a sixty-foot cliffinto the icy Flint River. The moral is that he was going afterthe right bird b ut he wasn 't looking where he was going.The political party, with new rules calculated to open thepresidential nominating process, to involve more people ,to reach the ultimate in democracy , may find itself in thesame plight as th e conscientious pointer. It is possible to goover the cliff in reaching for too much democracy . Somethink the parties have already fallen into the river .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367018351
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/13/2019
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface — Acknowledgments — 1 Bosses at Work — 2 Participatory Disorder — 3 Hail the Conventions — 4 Bosses and Dark Horses — 5 Bosses and Upset Applecarts — 6 The Deliberative Convention — 7 Representative Delegates — 8 Bosses Versus Primaries — 9 Distorted Voice — 10 Danger of Democracy — II Open Gate — 12 Are Political Parties Expendable? — 13 Primaries Unlimited — 14 Thinking Delegates — 15 Where To?— Appendix — Selected Bibliography — Index.