Discuss the evolution of the party nomination process up to the implementation of the McGovern?Fraser reforms. Describe the changing institutional nature of the process and evaluate the effects of those changes.Provide specific examples
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should:
a. Discuss the origins of the nomination process with the days of King Caucus from 1796 to 1824, noting that the nomination process was the purview of party insiders who were all members of Congress and that the process was argued to be exclusionary and undemocratic.
b. Explain how concerns about King Caucus that manifested in the 1824 and 1828 elections led to the rise of a national nominating convention where states sent delegates to select the party's nominee and how that process privileged party bosses and increased their influence on national elections.
c.Describe how the desire of progressives to invest more authority in the people worked to replace the national party convention with a direct primary system that would control party organizations, elites, and bosses.
d. Analyze the effects of the direct primary reforms on American politics, noting that there was no immediate alteration in American politics due to costs, low turnout, and a rejection of the process by candidates.
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