Restoring Trust and Reducing Perceived Influence: Superdelegates and the 2020 Democratic Nomination

For the 2020 presidential nomination, the Democratic Party reduced the influence of superdelegates. This reform was designed to appease Democratic voters by tipping the selection power toward voters and away from elites. Yet in 2020, superdelegates remained influential, as they retained the ability...

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Autor principal: Jewitt, Caitlin E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Symposium – The State of American Politics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7786873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33424056
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00549-5
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description For the 2020 presidential nomination, the Democratic Party reduced the influence of superdelegates. This reform was designed to appease Democratic voters by tipping the selection power toward voters and away from elites. Yet in 2020, superdelegates remained influential, as they retained the ability to endorse candidates early and shape the narrative and trajectory of the race.
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spelling pubmed-77868732021-01-06 Restoring Trust and Reducing Perceived Influence: Superdelegates and the 2020 Democratic Nomination Jewitt, Caitlin E. Society Symposium – The State of American Politics For the 2020 presidential nomination, the Democratic Party reduced the influence of superdelegates. This reform was designed to appease Democratic voters by tipping the selection power toward voters and away from elites. Yet in 2020, superdelegates remained influential, as they retained the ability to endorse candidates early and shape the narrative and trajectory of the race. Springer US 2021-01-06 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7786873/ /pubmed/33424056 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00549-5 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Restoring Trust and Reducing Perceived Influence: Superdelegates and the 2020 Democratic Nomination
title Restoring Trust and Reducing Perceived Influence: Superdelegates and the 2020 Democratic Nomination
title_full Restoring Trust and Reducing Perceived Influence: Superdelegates and the 2020 Democratic Nomination
title_fullStr Restoring Trust and Reducing Perceived Influence: Superdelegates and the 2020 Democratic Nomination
title_full_unstemmed Restoring Trust and Reducing Perceived Influence: Superdelegates and the 2020 Democratic Nomination
title_short Restoring Trust and Reducing Perceived Influence: Superdelegates and the 2020 Democratic Nomination
title_sort restoring trust and reducing perceived influence: superdelegates and the 2020 democratic nomination
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7786873/
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