TY - BOOK AU - Whitby,Kenny J. TI - Strategic decision-making in presidential nominations: when and why party elites decide to support a candidate AV - JK522 .W45 2014 U1 - 324.5 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Presidents KW - United States KW - Nomination KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Primaries KW - Political science KW - Decision making KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: party elite survival in presidential nominations -- Historical context of superdelegates -- Superdelegates in the presidential nomination process -- The invisible primary -- The primary season -- The politics of attrition -- Conclusions and implications N2 - "Evaluates the how democratic presidential nominations are, using the historic race between Senators Obama and Clinton as a test case"--Provided by publisher UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3408840 ER -