1st Edition

The New Hampshire Primary And The American Electoral Process

By Niall Palmer Copyright 1997
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

New Hampshire is the subject of Palmer's book precisely because it serves as the first presidential primary every four years. Many critics of the New Hampshire primary fault it for being too arcane, too unrepresentative, and too quixotic to use as a gatekeeper of who becomes President. Palmer went to new Hampshire expecting to gather research that argued against New Hampshire as first primary. As... Read more
* Foreword by Stuart Rothenberg * Introduction * Granite State Watersheds, 19161996 * New Hampshire in Profile * Interpretation Games: The News Media in New Hampshire * The Importance of Being Earliest * Conclusion: NASS and Beyond

Biography

Niall Palmer